Information integration in enterprises is a nightmare due to the differences in software and hardware platforms and due to syntactic and semantic differences in the schemas of the...
The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...
Abstract. Research in Cooperative Query answering is triggered by the observation that users are often not able to correctly formulate queries to databases that return the intended...
The OKKAM initiative1 has recently highlighted the need of moving from the traditional web towards a "web of entities", where real-world objects descriptions could be ret...
: The integration of heterogenous web sources is still a big challenge. One approach to deal with integration problems is the usage of domain knowledge in form of vocabularies or o...