New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7, compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve and prese...
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fern&aa...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
We motivate and define the XSIL language as a flexible, hierarchical, extensible transport language for scientific data objects. The entire object may be represented in the file, o...
Kent Blackburn, Albert Lazzarini, Thomas A. Prince...
This paper introduces the MREF framework for representing and correlating information at a higher semantic level than is possible with Web-based information systems today. The rol...
Management of grid resource information is a challenging and important area considering the potential size of the grid and wide range of resources that should be represented. Thou...
Beth Plale, C. Jacobs, Scott Jensen, Ying Liu, C. ...