Abstract. As the Semantic Web emerges the problem of semantic heterogeneity is becoming more acute. Ontology matching techniques aim at tackling this problem by establishing corres...
Abstract. Context-aware systems incorporate multimodal information to analyze contextual information in users’ environment and provide various proactive services according to dyn...
Abstract. Devices like PDAs, mobile phones and Smartcards can communicate with each other and to exchange information and they should be made mutually aware of each other. For priv...
It is now commonly accepted that security and dependability largely represent two different aspects of an overall meta-concept that reflects the trust that we put in a computer s...
A substantial part of the database research field focusses on optimizing XQuery evaluation. However, optimization techniques are rarely validated by means of cross platform bench...