Provenance, or records of the origin, context, custody, derivation or other historical information about a (digital) object, has recently become an important research topic in a n...
The goal of this paper is to provide an architectural analysis of the existing distributed object oriented platforms. Based on a relatively small number of design patterns, our an...
Lightweight formal modeling and automatic analysis were used to explore the design of the Intentional Naming System (INS), a new scheme for resource discovery in a dynamic network...
An important challenge in software reengineering is to encapsulate collections of related data that, due to the absence of appropriate constructs for encapsulation in legacy progr...
Abstract. Perhaps the most fundamental notion underlying the desiderata for a successful Semantic Web is Semantic Interoperability. In this context, ontologies have been more and m...