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...
Peer-to-peer Data Networks (PDNs) are large-scale, selforganizing, distributed query processing systems. Familiar examples of PDN are peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which su...
Hierarchical categorization is a powerful and convenient method so that it is commonly used in various areas, such as ontologies. Although each hierarchy is useful, there are probl...
Business processes that span organizational borders describe the interaction between multiple parties working towards a common objective. They also express business rules that gov...
Alexander Lazovik, Marco Aiello, Mike P. Papazoglo...
Abstract. We introduce a natural class of cellular automata characterised by a property of the local transition law without any assumption on the states set. We investigate some al...