A person working with diverse information sources--with possibly different formats and information models--may recognize and wish to express conceptual structures that are not exp...
Sudarshan Murthy, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maie...
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s...
In my thesis I will address the problem of interoperation between information spaces on the web. We explain how this problem is different to traditional database integration scenar...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Spatial and georeferenced information plays an important role in urban land management processes such as spatial planning and environmental management. As many of the processes ar...