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Abstract. We discuss our DLDB knowledge base system and evaluate its capability in processing a very large set of real-world Semantic Web data. Using DLDB, we have constructed the ...
All readers of this paper most likely have knowledge of the software requirements discipline and of the use case notation, however not everyone is aware that with the progress of ...
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One of the challenges in large scale distributed computing is to utilize the thousands of idle personal computers. In this paper, we present a system that enables users to e ortles...