Toward Managing Uncertain Spatial Information for Situational Awareness Applications
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision...
Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems Interoperability Using ebXML
Enterprise systems interoperability (ESI) is an important topic for business currently. This situation is evidenced, at least in part,...
PRISMA/DB: A Parallel, Main Memory Relationh DBMS
PRISWDB is a full-fledged parallel, main memory relational database management system the design of which is characterized by two...
Design and Performance Evaluation Considerations of a Multimedia Medical Database
Multimedia information management and communications systems for medical applications have been undergoing design and development for more than ten...
Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods
Problem solving methods (PSMs) describe the reasoning components of knowledge-based systems as patterns of behavior that can be reused...
An Evaluation of Vertical Class Partitioning for Query Processing in Object-Oriented Databases
Vertical partitioning is a design technique for reducing the number of disk accesses to execute a given set of...
Scheduling Transactions with Temporal Constraints: Exploiting Data Semantics
In this paper, issues involved in the design of a real-time database which maintains data temporal consistency are discussed....
A Survey of Languages for Specifying Dynamics: A Knowledge Engineering Perspective
During the last years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems has been developed. Characteristics for knowledge-based...
The Role of Polymorphic Reuse Mechanisms in Schema Evolution in an Object-Oriented Database
A seamless approach to the incremental design and reuse of object-oriented methods and query specifications is presented. We argue...
Part-Whole Relationship Categories and Their Application in Object-Oriented Analysis
Part decomposition and, conversely, the construction of composite objects out of individual parts have long been recognized as ubiquitous...
