The need to merge multiple sources of uncertain information is an important issue in many application areas, especially when there is potential for contradictions between sources. ...
Independent component analysis (ICA) has been successfully applied for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, independence might be too strong...
rces. A data warehouse can be abstractly seen as a set of materialized views. Selecting views for materialization in a data warehouse is one of the most important decisions making ...
Data Grids provide transparent access to heterogeneous and autonomous data resources. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of a data sharing system that (i) is ...
Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...