Abstract. Extensions of relational databases which aim at utilizing various aspects of similarity and imprecision in data processing are widespread in the literature. A need for de...
As XML has emerged as a data representation format and as great quantities of data have been stored in the XML format, XML document design has become an important and evident issu...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
Fusion of sensor and communication data currently can only be performed at a late processing stage after sensor and information are formulated as logical statements at appropriate...
Hypermedia design methods have been proposed for the development of hypermedia and web applications. Nowadays, we face up to another challenge, the Semantic Web, in order to repre...