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...

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...

The Equifax data breach, announced in September 2017, occupies the top 10 charts of the largest data breaches in history. While the 148 million affected persons do not bring the event to the top, but the sensitivity of the data stolen makes it one of the most impactful incidents for consumers....

A possibility of a temporary disconnection of database service exists in many computing environments. It is a common need to permit a participating site to lag behind and re-initialize to full recovery. It is also necessary that active transactions view a globally consistent system state for...

Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of the area by developing a typology of corporate householding tasks and knowledge requirements. We stress the...

The successful integration of data from autonomous and heterogeneous systems calls for the resolution of semantic conflicts that may be present. Such conflicts are often reffected by discrepancies in attribute values of the same data object. In this paper, we describe a recently developed...

We examine semantic interoperability problems in the fixed income securities industry and propose a knowledge representation architecture for context interchange mediation to support dynamic integration of autonomous database, web, and procedural sources of information. For sources and receivers...