Building modern telemetry systems is fraught with challenges involving subsystem integration, the role and management of data, scalability issues, disparate technologies, concerns about costeffectiveness and more. This article addresses today’s challenges with a solution based on adopting a data-oriented architecture and relying on a standards-based, integrated highperformance middleware platfo...

ions such as inheritance are more naturally represented by graphs than as sets (Levene and Poulovassilis, 1991 [33]; Poulovassilis and Levene, 1994 [34]). (4) Data modellings in object-relational DBMSs still have weaknesses in semantic supports. For example, because the functional data model is the “lowest common denominator” of data models (refer to Section 2.2.3.1), there is lack of semantic ...

The advent of Web services is enabling a move towards service– oriented computing. In order for this new computing paradigm to scale, choreography standards that enable one to aggregate or compose existing services into new services are critical. Such standards would allow third–parties to provide value–added services very much like in real–world service–oriented economies. In this paper, we ex...

To bring service-oriented architectures to their full potential, automatic service discovery and selection mechanisms are required. In this paper, a service selection component is presented that supports offers providing multiple configurations of a service. The selection algorithm ranks the offered services and their configurations according to the requester’s preferences and thus facilitates ...

Concept profile matching is a knowledge discovery method that proved successful in generating hypotheses about molecular mechanisms explaining the results from genotype-phenotype studies. This technology has been implemented in the Anni standalone application (http://biosemantics.org/anni) and web service (http://www.biocatalogue.org/services/3330). At the core of this technology are the concep...

Current tools and techniques for ontology development are based on the traditions of AI knowledge representation research. This research has led to popular formalisms such as KIF and KL-ONE style languages. However, these representations are little known outside AI research laboratories. In contrast, commercial interest has resulted in ideas from the object-oriented programming community maturi...

The Internet community has a well-developed, mature set of layered transport and network protocols, which are quite successful in offering both connection-oriented (TCP) and connectionless (UDP) transport services over connectionless network services (IP) to endusers. Many popular network applications have been built directly on top of the TCP and UDP over the past decade. These have helped the...

In this paper I argue that so-called transdisciplinary research, that is problem-oriented, non-technological research outside the disciplinary structure, leads to a strengthening of organisational aspects of knowledge production and, particularly, of a change in quality standards. Quality standards are increasingly defined in intra-organisational or project-dependent and procedural instead of d...