IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of ex...
Whilst it is a common task in systems integration to have to transform between di erent semantic data models, such inter-model transformations are often speci ed in an ad hoc manne...
With the development of modern cities, 3-D spatial information systems (SIS) are increasingly required for spatial planning, communication systems and other applications. The geom...
During data warehouse design, the designer frequently encounters the problem of choosing among different alternatives for the same design construct. The behavior of the chosen desi...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...