Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...
There is a need for information, application, and other enterprise architectures which are robust and flexible enough to meet the challenges of today’s heterogeneous, rapidly cha...
Abstract— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...
Abstract. Relationships are an essential part of the design of a database because they capture associations between things. Comparing and integrating relationships from heterogeneo...