—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
: Integrated process support is highly desirable in environments where data related to a particular (business) process are scattered over distributed, heterogeneous information sys...
Databases supporting time dependent and continuously changing geometries, called moving objects databases, have been studied for about 15 years. The field has been flourishing and...
Background: Digital atlases provide a common semantic and spatial coordinate system that can be leveraged to compare, contrast, and correlate data from disparate sources. As the q...
Computing support forlargeengineeringenterprisesprovides an example of the need for hypermedia-based collaborative computing systems composed of a large number of distributed hete...