Objects are collected into an object base because of a presumed need for cooperation among them. In classical object bases the cooperation is based on synchronous, preplanned mess...
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...
Today’s business processes are not static, they need to be adapted frequently to reflect changing business requirements. Several business process languages such as WS-BPEL have...
Florian Rosenberg, Christoph Nagl, Schahram Dustda...
Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Da...
XML is a now a dominant standard for storing and exchanging information. With its increasing use in areas such as data warehousing and e-commerce, there is a rapidly growing need ...
James Bailey, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter T. Wo...