Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...
New biomedical technologies need to be integrated for research on complex diseases. It is necessary to combine and analyze information coming from different sources: genetic-molecu...
: Data management in the life sciences has evolved from simple storage of data to complex information systems providing additional functionalities like analysis and visualization c...
: Web applications have evolved from simple read-only websites to complex data- and operation-intensive systems. The main goal of this kind of application is to provide the users w...
New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. As outlined in [1], the gene...