The advent of the Semantic Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the exi...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Cai-Nico...
We present a formalism for provenance in distributed systems based on the -calculus. Its main feature is that all data products are annotated with metadata representing their prov...
Issam Souilah, Adrian Francalanza, Vladimiro Sasso...
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
One of the challenging issues in a distributed time sensitive information rich environment is how to assist the decision makers to make decisions quickly and effectively. This pap...
Guruprasad Airy, Po-Chun Chen, Xiaocong Fan, John ...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...