In parallel computing environments such as HPC clusters and the Grid, data-intensive applications involve large overhead costs due to a concentration of access to the files on co...
Relational database management systems are constantly being extended and augmented to accommodate data in different domains. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in vario...
This paper proposes to model and represent an object’s digital persona by means of a conceptual model that uses fragments of schemata that are termed data-DNA. The object may be...
The support of process enactment through the use of workflow management systems has gained considerable attention within the last few years. We develop a classification framework c...
We are presenting a framework for continuous querying of time-varying streamed XML data. A continuous stream in our framework consists of a finite XML document followed by a conti...