Keywords, restricted vocabularies (RVs), thesauri, and catalogues are introduced leading up to discussion of the need for full ontologies to describe the full logical and relation...
Data warehouses and OLAP systems help to interactively analyze huge volume of data. This data, extracted from transactional databases, frequently contains spatial information whic...
Sandro Bimonte, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...
Abstract: Interoperability for information systems remains a challenge both at the semantic and organisational levels. The original three-level architecture for local databases nee...
The study presented in this paper is motivated by the performance analysis of response times in distributed information systems, where transactions are handled by iterative server...
Robert D. van der Mei, Bart Gijsen, N. in't Veld, ...