The importance of metadata has been broadly referred in the last years, mainly in the field of data warehousing and decision support systems. Contemporarily, in the adjacent field...
Design documents can be exchanged in business-tobusiness networks through Product Data Management (PDM) system integration. This rarely used approach provides new possibilities fo...
The distributed object group framework (DOGF) enables easier integration of distributed objects to healthcare home applications. This paper describes a healthcare information manag...
Our Distributed Telecommunication Management System (DTMS) uses an object-oriented model to describe the networked Voice Communication System (VCS) to be managed. In order to allo...
Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...