A Probabilistic QoS Model and Computation Framework for Web Services-Based Workflows
Web services promise to become a key enabling technology for B2B e-commerce. Several languages have been proposed to compose...
Lossless Conditional Schema Evolution
Conditional schema changes change the schema of the tuples that satisfy the change condition. When the schema of a...
Ontology-Guided Change Detection to the Semantic Web Data
The Semantic Web is envisioned as the next generation web in which data instances are enriched with metadata defined...
Schema Evolution in Data Warehousing Environments – A Schema Transformation-Based Approach
In heterogeneous data warehousing environments, autonomous data sources are integrated into a materialised integrated database. The schemas of the...
Metaprogramming for Relational Databases
For systems that share enough structural and functional commonalities, reuse in schema development and data manipulation can be achieved...
Incremental Navigation: Providing Simple and Generic Access to Heterogeneous Structures
We present an approach to support incremental navigation of structured information, where the structure is introduced by the data...
Agent Patterns for Ambient Intelligence
The realization of complex distributed applications, required in areas such as e-Business, e-Government, and ambient intelligence, calls for new...
Modeling the Semantics of 3D Protein Structures
The post Human Genome Project era calls for reliable, integrated, flexible, and convenient data management techniques to facilitate research...
Risk-Driven Conceptual Modeling of Outsourcing Decisions
In the current networked world, outsourcing of information technology or even of entire business processes is often a prominent...
Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing in Relational Database Systems
There is growing evidence that schema-conscious approaches are a better option than schema-oblivious techniques as far as XML query...
