A DataSpace Support Platform (DSSP) is a self-sustained and self-managed system which needs to support uncertainty among its mediated schemas and its schema mappings. Some approaches for managing such uncertainty by assigning probabilities and reliability degrees to schema mappings have been proposed. Unfortunately, the number of mappings self-generated by a DSSP is usually too large and among ...

The concept of 2-metric space is a natural generalization of the metric space. Initially, it has been investigated by Gähler [3] and has been developed broadly by Gähler [4, 5] and more. After this number of fixed point theorems have been proved for 2-metric spaces by introducing compatible mappings, which are more general than commuting and weakly commuting mappings. Jungck and Rhoades defined...

In this paper an approach to joint source-channel coding (JSCC), named Shannon-Kotel’nikov mappings (SKmappings), is presented. SK-mappings are (piecewise) continuous direct source-to-channel mappings operating directly on amplitude continuous discrete time signals. A theory for calculating and categorizing the end-to-end distortion when using SK-mappings for communication is presented. The the...

We extend the notion of generalized weakly contraction mappings due to Choudhury et al. (2011) to generalized α-β-weakly contraction mappings. We show with examples that our new class of mappings is a real generalization of several known classes of mappings. We also establish fixed point results for such mappings in metric spaces. Applying our new results, we obtain fixed point results on ordin...

We propose discrete mappings of second order that have a discrete analogue of Lyapunov function. The mappings are extensions of the integrable Quispel-RobertsThompson (QRT) mapping, and a discrete Lyapunov function of the mappings is identical to an explicit conserved quantity of the QRT mapping. Moreover we can obtain a differential and an ultradiscrete limit of the mappings preserving the exi...

In this paper, we first introduce a new family of functions like an implicit function called ?-functions. Furthermore, concept ?-?F-fuzzy contractive mappings, which is weaker than the class fuzzy F-contractive mappings. Then, existence and uniqueness fixed point are established for type mappings in setting metric spaces. Moreover, some examples application to nonlinear fractional differential ...

Recently, Kawasaki and Takahashi [8] defined a broad class of nonlinear mappings, called widely more generalized hybrid, in a Hilbert space which contains generalized hybrid mappings [9] and strict pseudo-contractive mappings [2]. They proved fixed point theorems for such mappings. In this paper, we prove fixed point theorems for widely more generalized hybrid nonself mappings in a Hilbert spac...

Schema mappings and data mappings constitute essential building blocks of data integration, data exchange and peer-to-peer data sharing systems. At present, either schema-level mappings or datalevel mappings are used for data sharing purposes. In this paper we consider the semantics of bi-level mapping that combines the schema-level and data-level mappings. Tabular representation of the mapping...

Schema mappings have been extensively studied in database research over the past decade – notably in the areas of data exchange and data integration. Recently, the notion of an information transfer order on schema mappings has been introduced to compare the amount of source information that is actually transferred by two mappings. In this paper, we present two new operators: the union and inter...