Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
The globalization of businesses and the cooperation between organizations have brought on an ever increased need for providing support for distributed collaborations. In this pape...
Successful information management implies the ability to design accurate representations of the real world of interest, in spite of the diversity of perceptions from the applicati...
Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitute the basis for the Semantic Web. We provide a framework, CREAM, that allows for creation of metadata. While the annotatio...
The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...