For a large number of data management problems, it would be very useful to be able to obtain a few samples from a data set, and to use the samples to guess the largest (or smalles...
We describe the software environment that has been developed for the management and support of planning missions in the SAR domain. We have chosen to develop a configurable environ...
This paper shows that flexibility of workflow executions, i.e., the ability to deviate from a given model on the fly and during execution, is crucial for a wide applicability of w...
Current database management system technology is unable to provide adequate support for Nomadic Computing. Mobile applications require systems which are sufficiently lightweight an...
Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...