In an increasingly regulated world, with companies prioritizing a big part of their budget for expenses with cyber security protections, why have all of these protection initiatives and compliance standards not been enough to prevent the leak of billions of data points in recent years? New data...

Last fall, in Northern California, the United States experienced its first ever deliberate large-scale and long-lasting blackout. Fueled by fears of increased devastating fires due to its century-old equipment, the region's utility company shut off power to more than 1.5 million people forcing...

Sometimes it seems as if everyone has bought into the hype: Industries as far-flung as real estate and diamond sales have embraced block-chain without entirely knowing what it is or how its most vaunted features might fail or have unintended consequences. Block-chain assures users that once...

There are many different kinds of ontologies used for different purposes in modern computing. Lightweight ontologies are easy to create, but difficult to deploy; formal ontolgies are relatively easy to deploy, but difficult to create. This paper presents an approach that combines the strengths...

The prospect of combining information from diverse sources for superior decision making is plagued by the challenge of semantic heterogeneity, as data sources often adopt different conventions and interpretations when there is no coordination. An emerging solution in information integration is...

There is no such monopoly as The World Wide Bank that manages the databases of all possible financial activities. Such a concept makes neither technical nor business sense. Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company, operates its own...

There is no such thing as a World Wide Bank managing the central database of all possible financial activities. Such a concept makes neither technical nor business sense. Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company operates its own...

In this paper we describe a prototype implementation of the Context Interchange Network (CIN). The prototype is described in terms of a financial application. The CIN is designed to provide for the intelligent integration of contextually (i.e., semantically) heterogeneous data. The system uses...