Increasingly, applications are being built by combining existing software components. For the most part, a software developer can treat components as black-boxes. However, for som...
Andrew Chan, Reid Holmes, Gail C. Murphy, Annie T....
The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstr...
By harnessing computational power of distributed heterogeneous resources, it is possible to build a large scale integrated system so that a centralized program is partitioned and ...
Debzani Deb, M. Muztaba Fuad, Michael J. Oudshoorn
Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...
The object-oriented design process has been a hot topic in software development since it will improve product quality and productivity significantly, which is also a major issue i...