We describe collaborative efforts between a knowledge representation team, a community of scientists, and scientific information managers in developing knowledge models for ecolog...
Deana Pennington, Joshua S. Madin, Ferdinando Vill...
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a fully distributed directory service for Farsite, a logically centralized file system that is physically implemented on a...
We show that aggregate constraints (as opposed to pairwise constraints) that often arise when integrating multiple sources of data, can be leveraged to enhance the quality of dedu...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Anish Das Sarma, Venkatesh Gant...
We discuss four different core protocols for synchronizing access to and modifications of XML document collections. These core protocols synchronize structure traversals and modif...
Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
Abstract—Vocabulary alignment is a main challenge in distributed access control as peers should understand each other’s policies unambiguously. Ontologies enable mutual underst...
Daniel Trivellato, Fred Spiessens, Nicola Zannone,...