In a world of wide-scale information sharing, the decentralized coordination has to consolidate a variety of heterogeneity. Shared data are described in different formats, i.e. da...
A schema mapping is a specification that describes how data structured under one schema (the source schema) is to be transformed into data structured under a different schema (the...
The procedures to collect information about users are well known in computer science till long time. They range from getting explicit information from users, required in order to ...
Semantic relationships, those class-to-class connections that carry inherent support for constraints and various other functionalities, play an important role when building inform...
Data exchange between embedded systems and other small or large computing devices increases. Since data in different data sources may refer to the same real world objects, data ca...