Semantic Web technologies facilitate data integration over a large number of sources with decentralised and loose coordination, ideally leading to interlinked datasets which descri...
Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific service...
In this chapter we will introduce description logics, a family of logic-based knowledge representation languages that can be used to represent the terminological knowledge of an a...
Enterprise Architecture is a model-based approach to business-oriented IT management. To promote good IT decision making, an Enterprise Architecture framework needs to explicate w...
Peer-to-peer database systems (P2PDBs) aim at providing database services with node autonomy, high availability and loose coupling between participating nodes by building the DBMS...