Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditio...
While the information resources on the Web are vast, the sources are often hard to find, painful to use, and difficult to integrate. We have developed the Heracles framework for b...
The management of business processes has recently received a lot of attention. One of the most interesting problems is the description of a process model in a language that allows ...
This paper discusses information quality issues concerning consumer data assimilated by telecommunication companies (telcos) in regional and global ventures. First, it describes v...