Information availability has increased consumers’ informedness, the degree to which they know what is available in the marketplace, with precisely which attributes and at precis...
In this paper we present a mechanism for translating constraint queries, i.e., Boolean expressions of constraints, across heterogeneous information sources. Integrating such syste...
We describe Dead Value Information (DVI) and introduce three new optimizations which exploit it. DVI provides assertions that certain register values are dead, meaning they will n...
Seamless integration of digital parts libraries or electronic parts catalogs for e-procurement is impeded by semantic heterogeneity. The utilization of ontologies as metadata desc...
P2P techniques for semantic coordination based on semantic communities are recently emerging to enforce effective collaboration platforms. In this paper, we focus on semantic coo...