The world-wide-web does not support referential integrity, i.e. dangling references do exist. This can be very annoying; in particular, if a user pays for some service in the form...
Although distributed object computing has developed rapidly over the past decade, and is now becoming commercially important, there remain key application areas inadequately suppo...
There are now a large number of repositories in the world, contributing a significant amount of content to the world's scholars and scientists. The landscape has changed sinc...
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...
Composition of temporal and spatial properties of real world objects in a unified data framework results into Moving Object Databases (MOD). MODs are able to process, manage and a...