Interoperability in service oriented environments is heavily inuenced by the view that the cooperating services have on their data. e term service for the abstract contract concl...
International standardization in information representation, organization, and dissemination are meant to eliminate the discrepancies in communication among participating organiza...
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Ontologies are an emerging paradigm to support declarativity, interoperability, and intelligent services in many areas, such as Agent–based Computation, Distributed Information ...
Knowledge discovery and data correlation require a unified approach to basic data management. However, achieving such an approach is nearly impossible with hundreds of disparate d...
Daniel J. Crichton, J. Steven Hughes, Gregory J. D...