The integration of heterogeneous data sources with even heterogeneous semantic meanings poses a challenge for data and system integrators. Ontology Alignment (OA) tries to identif...
Thomas Moser, Kathrin Schimper, Richard Mordinyi, ...
: In a dynamically scalable hosting infrastructure for e-business computing, servers need to be quickly allocated in order to satisfy a sudden demand for increased computing power ...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Biological scientists have made large amounts of data available on the Web, which can be accessed by canned or precomputed queries presented via web forms. To satisfy further info...
Diego Calvanese, C. Maria Keet, Werner Nutt, Maria...
A common problem facing mobile computing is disconnected operation, or computing in the absence of a network. Hoarding eases disconnected operation by selecting a subset of the us...