As originally conceived, the World Wide Web was intended for the purpose of sharing information. Many websites realise this aim by publishing pages from a data repository which su...
A data stream is a continuous and high-speed flow of data items. High speed refers to the phenomenon that the data rate is high relative to the computational power. The increasing...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
To simplify the task of obtaining information from the vast number of information sources that are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), we are building tools to build informatio...
The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...