Resolving heterogeneity among various protein data sources is a crucial problem if we want to gain more information about proteomics process. Information from multiple protein databases like PDB, SCOP, and UniProt need to integrated to answer user queries. Issues of Semantic Heterogeneity haven’t been addressed so far in Protein Informatics. This paper outlines protein data source composition a...

delivering added value public e-services often requires cooperation between two or more government departments. in general, such cooperation is ensured by implementing interoperability between automated business processes. in spite of the existence of several works interested in public online services in general, only few of them were focused on measuring interoperability degree, whether used o...

The difficult problems in design of systems which facilitate interoperation and mediation among information sources and their consumers arise from the presence of semantic heterogeneity among the schemas and ontologies supporting the different services. The purpose of this paper is to develop a taxonomy of semantic heterogeneity, and to describe, taking the perspective of text databases, the co...

A key challenge in emerging multi-domain open environments is the need to establish trust-based, loosely coupled partnerships between previously unknown domains. An efficient trust framework is essential to facilitate trust negotiation based on the service requirements of the partner domains. While several trust mechanisms have been proposed, none address the issue of integrating the trust mech...

Interoperation between business partners is extremely important. However, most product data produced in many firms are considered as ad hoc and are not qualified for interoperation. To solve this problem, this paper has proposed a concept-centric definition transformation approach, which transforms irregular local product definitions from different data sources to a set of canonical local produ...

The dif"cult problems in the design of systems which facilitate interoperation and mediation among information sources and their consumers arise from the presence of semantic heterogeneity among the schemas and ontologies supporting the different services. The purpose of this paper is to develop a taxonomy of semantic heterogeneity, and to describe, taking the perspective of text databases, the...

Advances in distributed systems and networking technology have made interoperation not only feasible but also increasingly popular. We deene the interop-eration of secure systems and its security, and prove complexity and composability results on obtaining optimal and secure interoperation. Most problems are NP-complete even for systems with very simple access control structures. Nevertheless, ...

Facilitators1 provides an infrastructure a collection of networked task-independent system programs supporting automated interoperation between distributed heterogeneous software agents. Through a flexible communication model, the Facilitators infrastructure provides a variety of services to heterogeneous software agents based on both request/reply and publish/subscribe protocols, the communica...