Abstract. Conceptual Information Systems unfold the conceptual structure of data stored in relational databases. In the design phase of the system, conceptual hierarchies have to b...
In an earlier study a Semantic Content Based Image Retrieval system was developed. The system requires a Visual Object Process Diagram - VOPD to be created for each image in the d...
Many methodologies have been proposed in the last decade for integration and exchange of medical data. However, little progress has occurred due to the following reasons. First, p...
Vagelis Hristidis, Peter J. Clarke, Nagarajan Prab...
This paper describes an extension of the Java language that provides “programmable security.” The approach augments the Java syntax with constructs for specifying various acce...
John Hale, Mauricio Papa, Oliver Bremer, Rodrigo C...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...