Abstract. Global distributed systems must be standards-based to allow interoperability between all of their components. While this guarantees interoperability, it often causes loca...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Abstract. Integration of text and documents into database management systems has been the subject of much research. However, most of the approaches are limited to data retrieval. C...
Stefania Leone, Ela Hunt, Thomas B. Hodel, Michael...
Formal concept analysis has become an active field of study for data analysis and knowledge discovery. A formal concept C is determined by its extent (the set of objects that fall...
— This paper considers a formal object-oriented model for distributed computing. Object orientation appears as a leading framework for concurrent and distributed systems. However...
Several problems are involved in the Virtual Enterprise (VE) formation process. One of the most important problems is the lack of understanding that may arise during agents’ int...