In this paper we adopt a component model based on object-oriented systems, introducing the concepts of components and their structure. A component consists of a dynamically changi...
In this workweproposea generalisation of the notion of associationrule in the contextof flat transactions to that of a compositeassociation rule in the context of a structured dir...
Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) is a computing environment which simplifies the development and execution of distributed applications on computational grids. DVC provides a sim...
We present a new iterative algorithm for ontology mapping where we combine standard string distance metrics with a structural similarity measure that is based on a vector represent...
Retrenchment is presented in a simple relational framework as a more flexible development concept than refinement for capturing the early preformal stages of development, and brie...