Extracting E-R Models from Collaboration Analysis Methods, MCM, and CLM
To make collaboration tasks work effectively, it is very important to analyze what collaborators are doing, which position they...
Living Manufacturing Systems with Living Organizations
Borrowing the title of Nobel-prize laureate physicist Erwin Schrodinger’s work “What is Life?”, we ask “What are Living Systems?”...
A Study on Human-Centric Real-Time Scheduling for PWB Assembly Line
Aiming at promoting both a mass customized production, and higher motivations of human operators, we have conducted an analysis,...
Global Schema Generation Using Formal Ontologies
This paper deals with the problem of handling semantic heterogeneity during schema integration. Semantics refer to the meaning of...
Automatically Extracting Ontologically Specified Data from HTML Tables of Unknown Structure
Data on the Web in HTML tables is mostly structured, but we usually do not know the structure in...
Superimposed Schematics: Introducing E-R Structure for In-Situ Information Selections
Considerable research exists on providing structured access to unstructured information sources, primarily for search and query. Little attention has...
On the Expressive Power of Data Integration Systems
There are basically two approaches for designing a data integration system. In the global-as-view (GAV) approach, one maps the...
Web extensions to UML: Using the MVC Triad
Current Web Modelling Languages (WMLs) fall short of the requirements for the modelling of web system development. In particular,...
Property-Based Semantic Reconciliation of Heterogeneous Information Sources
Integrating information from diverse sources is of great importance in the database area. The main difficulty in information integration...
Wiccap Data Model: Mapping Physical Websites to Logical Views
Information sources over the WWW contain a large amount of data organized according to different interests and values. Thus,...
