business requirement in the real world cannot be abstracted correctly into an entity-relationship schema. Once core entities are discovered, we can obtain an Entity-Relationship Di...
The Management of Distributed Applications and Systems (MANDAS) project addresses problems arising in the management of distributed applications. Specifically, we are studying the...
There are few development organizations that have fully integrated usability activities as an integral part of their product development projects. One reason for this is that the ...
Driven by many real applications, in this paper we study the problem of similarity search with implicit object features; that is, the features of each object are not pre-computed/e...
Yi Luo, Zheng Liu, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang 0011, Jeff...
One of the more tedious and complex tasks during the specification of conceptual schemas (CSs) is modeling the operations that define the system behavior. This paper aims to simpl...