Modularity is a key requirement for collaborative ontology engineering and for distributed ontology reuse on the Web. Modern ontology languages, such as OWL, are logic-based, and ...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...
Hierarchical peer to peer networks with multiple directory services are an important architecture for large-scale file sharing due to their effectiveness and efficiency. Recent ...
We present Ensemble, a message-passing implementation methodology, applied to PVM. Ensemble overcomes problems and complexities in developing applications in messagepassing enviro...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...