In this paper we present a model of functional access to data that, we argue, is suitable for modeling a class of data repositories characterized by functional access, such as web ...
Collaborative work requires, more than ever, access to data located on multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources. The development of these novel information platforms, ref...
Abstract. In Data Warehouse (DW) scenarios, ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) processes are responsible for the extraction of data from heterogeneous operational data sourc...
Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationshi...
Abstract. For systems that share enough structural and functional commonalities, reuse in schema development and data manipulation can be achieved by defining problem-oriented lang...
When we derive multi-scale databases from a source spatial database, the geometries and topological relations, which are a kind of constraints defined explicitly or implicitly in ...
Advanced personalized web applications require a carefully dealing with their users’ wishes and preferences. Since such preferences do not always hold in general, personalized ap...
A sequence diagram in UML is used to model interactions among objects that participate in a use case. Developing a sequence diagram is complex; our experience shows that novice dev...