: In order to reduce transmission costs and response time, mobile clients typically cache data locally. But, avoiding the usage of outdated data and maintaining the consistency of ...
The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...
At the "functional level", Semantic Web Services (SWS) are described akin to planning operators, with preconditions and effects relative to an ontology; the ontology prov...
This paper describes Continuous Queries (CQ) in Oracle RDBMS, a feature that incorporates stream and complex event processing into an RDBMS, the first such attempt in commercial d...
Is it possible for two intelligent beings to communicate meaningfully, without any common language or background? This question has interest on its own, but is especially relevant...