Answering aggregate queries like sum, count, min, max over regions containing moving objects is often needed for virtual world applications, real-time monitoring systems, etc. Sin...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
Service Science is a new term for a new paradigm which aims at the solution of an obvious problem: How to make the increasing fusion of business and IT successful in a dynamically ...
Konrad Pfadenhauer, Burkhard Kittl, Schahram Dustd...
Network-based information systems use well-defined standards to ensure interoperability and also have a tightly coupled relationship between their internal data representation an...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...