The paper uses a case example to present a novel way of building enterprise information systems. The objective is to bring forth the benefits of an item centric systems design in ...
Besides the conclusion of agreements about quality of service (QoS), one of the major prerequisites for a global service market are means to monitor the fulfillment of those agreem...
In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery s...
The paper presents an MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS)-based metadata and user proļ¬le model used within an enhanced DTV environment for semantic annotation and person...
Over the last decade, the role of information technology in enterprises has been transforming from one of providing automation services to one of enabling business innovation. ITā...