The performance of document analysis systems significantly depends on knowledge about the application domain that can be exploited in the analysis process. Typically, one has to d...
As data management applications grow more complex, they may need efficient distributed query processing, but also subscription management, data archival etc. To enact such applicat...
The purpose of this paper is to first showcase the concept of an operation schema--a precise form of system-level operation specification--and secondly show how operation schemas e...
With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...
Service-oriented computing (SOC) is viewed as the computing paradigm of the near future, allowing for the dynamic interaction of services provided by distributed business partners...