The vision of the Semantic Web is to make Web content machine-readable. To describe data, the Resource Description Framework has been extended with a schema-level and description ...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
In this paper we look at the application of XML data management support in scientific data analysis workflows. We describe a software infrastructure that aims to address issues as...
Shannon Hastings, Matheus Ribeiro, Stephen Langell...
In a Distributed Database System (DDBS), transactions on objects can be read requests or write requests in a random manner. The replication algorithm of objects critically affects...