Metadata descriptions of database contents are required to build and use systems that access and deliver data in response to user requests. When numerous heterogeneous databases a...
Eduard H. Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ul...
: Complex software systems, like operating systems and middleware, have to cope with a broad range of requirements as well as strict resource constraints. Family-based software dev...
Mediators – used in federated information systems – provide a homogeneous read-only access to a set of autonomous information sources. To achieve semantic integration of the h...
Abstract. The today's applications usually form a system of sub-applications, each being responsible for a particular functionality. Hence, the design and maintenance of such ...
Adaptive query processing is of utmost importance for the scalability of data stream processing systems due to the long-running queries and fluctuating stream characteristics. An...