Despite its origins in software modeling, there has been growing interest in using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for conceptual modeling of application domains. However, the...
Abstract. Data integration is the process by which data from heterogeneous data sources are conceptually integrated into a single cohesive data set. In recent years agents have bee...
The development of techniques for supporting incremental maintenance of materialized views has been an active research area for over twenty years. However, although there has been ...
M. Akhtar Ali, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Ferna...
Databases are a key technology for molecular biology which is a very data intensive discipline. Since molecular biological databases are rather heterogeneous, unification and data...
Autonomic computing – self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing applications, systems and networks – is widely believed to be a promising solution to everincreasing syst...
Gail E. Kaiser, Janak J. Parekh, Philip Gross, Giu...