With increased demand for storage of scientific data comes a corresponding demand for efficient retrieval mechanisms necessary for analytical and reporting purposes. As is often...
ifferent abstraction levels, resulting in isolated `information silos'. An increasing number of task-specific software tools aim to support developers, but this often results ...
End users are often cast as the weak link in computer security; they fall victim to social engineering and tend to know very little about security technology and policies. This pa...
In this paper we present our approach towards a modularized database management system (DBMS) whose components can be adapted at runtime and show the modularization of a DBMS bene...
Free text botanical descriptions contained in printed floras can provide a wealth of valuable scientific information. In spite of this richness, these texts have seldom been anal...