The Selfish-brain theory has created the theoretical basis for the systemic analysis of the energy metabolism in terms of a supply chain. The energy in form of glucose equivalents...
Abstract. Data Warehouse (DWH) systems are used by decision makers for performance measurement and decision support. Currently the main focus of the DWH research field is not as mu...
This paper revisits the analysis of annotation propagation from source databases to views defined in terms of conjunctive (SPJ) queries. Given a source database D, an SPJ query Q,...
Abstract. We extend different Description Logics by concrete domains (such as integers and reals) and by aggregation functions over these domains (such as min;max;count;sum), which...
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...