The need for information integration is paramount in many biological disciplines, because of the large heterogeneity in both the types of data involved and in the diversity of app...
: The World Wide Web’s anticipated scope as an environment for knowledge exchange has changed dramatically. Without major modifications to its primary mechanisms the Web has turn...
This paper introduces and presents a solution to the “Escherization” problem: given a closed figure in the plane, find a new closed figure that is similar to the original a...
The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
Software systems are becoming heterogeneous: instead of a small number of large programs from well-established sources, a user's desktop may now consist of many smaller compo...