Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pf...
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) that can be tailored to specific requirements offer the potential to improve reliability and maintainability and simultaneously the ability t...
Florian Irmert, Frank Lauterwald, Christoph P. Neu...
Abstract. We present INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for knowledge acquisition from autonomous, distributed, semantically heterogen...
Doina Caragea, Jyotishman Pathak, Jie Bao, Adrian ...
In this paper we present the basic requirements and initial design of a system which manages and facilitates changes to an OWL ontology in a multi-editor environment. This system u...
Timothy Redmond, Michael Smith, Nick Drummond, Tan...
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...