Abstract—Relational database management systems are general in the sense that they can handle arbitrary schemas, queries, and modifications; this generality is implemented using...
Moving objects databases managing spatial objects with continuously changing position and extent over time have recently found large interest in the database community. Queries ab...
The emergence of XML has lead to a change in the development style for Web sites. XML's advantages, such as the separation of content and presentation, or the possibility to ...
We set out to answer a question we were asked by software project management: how much effort remains to be spent on a specific software project and how will that effort be distri...
Pervasive computing applications must be engineered to provide unprecedented levels of flexibility in order to reconfigure and adapt in response to changes in computing resources ...