The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
Prefetching and caching are eective techniques for improving the performance of le systems, but they have not been studied in an integrated fashion. This paper proposes four pro...
In today's world with companies operating in a global business environment. Most enterprises, and especially the SMEs, lack the necessary business culture, technical and non-t...
We consider efficient strategies for the parallel and distributed computation of large sets of multivariate integrals. These arise in many applications such as computational chem...
Abstract. We address what is still a scarcity of general mathematical foundations for ontology-based semantic integration underlying current knowledge engineering methodologies in ...