— All large vendors of standard business software have announced to move to service oriented architecture. They claim benefits for their customers with regard to agility and ope...
Data Warehouses (DW) manage crucial enterprise information used for the decision making process which has to be protected from unauthorized accesses. However, security constraints ...
Interfaces to information systems, and the buildings in which such systems are embedded will typically be the result of the work of a large number of different disciplines, potenti...
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in reference models for the construction of specific information models. The orient...