The increasing power of modern computers steadily opens up new application domains for advanced data processing such as engineering and knowledge-based applications. To meet their...
The purpose of the chapter is to help someone familiar with DLs to understand the issues involved in developing an ontology for some universe of discourse, which is to become a co...
We present a unifying solution to the problem of fusion of functions, where both the producer function and the consumer function have one accumulating parameter. The key idea in t...
Abstract Current, data-driven applications have become more dynamic in nature, with the need to respond to events generated from distributed sources or to react to information extr...
Database archiving is important for the retrieval of old versions of a database and for temporal queries over the history of data. We demonstrate XArch, a management system for ma...