Despite many sensor, hardware, networking, and software advances, it is still quite difficult to build effective and reliable context-aware applications. We propose to build a con...
To make the World Wide Web machine-understandable there is a strong demand both for languages describing metadata and for languages querying metadata. The Resource Description Fram...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Richard Vdovj...
The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
: Simplifying data programming is a core mission of data management research. The issue at stake is to help engineers build efficient and robust data-centric applications. The fron...