Abstract. We propose and formalize HomeBPEL, a higher-order WSBPEL-like business process execution language where processes are firstclass values that can be stored in variables, p...
Mikkel Bundgaard, Arne J. Glenstrup, Thomas T. Hil...
The integration of Web services is a recent outgrowth of the Business Process integration field that will require powerful meta-schema mechanisms supported by higher level abstra...
Jun Shen, Georg Grossmann, Yun Yang, Markus Stumpt...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Because digital images are not meaningful by themselves, images are often coupled with some descriptive or qualitative data in an image database. Moreover the division of these da...
We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...