Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
We describe a methodology for creating composite web services, a key ingredient in spatial data infrastructure (SDI) applications, which we demonstrate on an emergency management ...
One of the most elaborate and important tasks in biology is the functional annotation of genes. Biologists have developed standardized and structured vocabularies, called bio-onto...
This paper describes the development of a new document ranking system based on layout similarity. The user has a need represented by a set of ”wanted” documents, and the syste...
May Huang, Daniel DeMenthon, David S. Doermann, Ly...
We pose the question: how do we efficiently evaluate a join operator, distributed over a heterogeneous network? Our objective here is to optimize the delay of output tuples. We di...