In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
Interval-valued computation is an unconventional computing paradigm. It is an idealization of classical 16-, 32-, 64- etc. bit based computations. It represents data as specific ...
We describe a policy language and implement its associated proof checking system. In our system, agents can distribute data along with usage policies in a decentralized architectu...
J. G. Cederquist, Ricardo Corin, M. A. C. Dekker, ...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of building scalable semantic overlay networks. Our approach follows the principle of data independence by separating a logical layer, th...