A number of labeling schemes have been designed to facilitate the query of XML, based on which the ancestor-descendant relationship between any two nodes can be determined quickly....
RFID technology can be used to significantly improve the efficiency of business processes by providing the capability of automatic identification and data capture. This technol...
Workflow technology has met with success in a variety of industries, although several limitations have emerged. One such drawback is the inflexibility of specification languages, ...
Belinda M. Carter, Joe Y.-C. Lin, Maria E. Orlowsk...
Abstract. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of datacentric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and various ...
Data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) provide an analysis framework supporting the decision making process. In many application domains, complex analysis tasks ...