In this paper we investigate the object-oriented notion of subtyping in the context of behavioural formalisms. Subtyping in OOformalisms is closely related to the concept of inheri...
ing spatio-temporal data as abstract data types into already existing data models is a promising approach to creating spatio-temporal query languages. In this context, an importan...
Network applications and services need to be environment-aware in order to meet non-functional requirements in increasingly dynamic contexts. In this paper we consider partition a...
An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
We present a new approach to extracting information from unstructured documents based on an application ontology that describes a domain of interest. Starting with such an ontolog...
David W. Embley, Douglas M. Campbell, Randy D. Smi...