Microsoft® TerraServer stores aerial, satellite, and topographic images of the earth in a SQL database available via the Internet. It is the world’s largest online atlas, combi...
Numerous agencies and agent systems are being developed or portrayed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are p...
In the context of multidimensional databases implemented on relational DBMSs through star schemes, the most effective technique to enhance performances consists of materializing re...
Earlier work on scheduling by autonomous systems has demonstrated that schedules in the form of simple temporal networks, with intervals of values for possible event-times, can be ...
Efficient management of RDF data is an important factor in realizing the Semantic Web vision. The existing approaches store RDF data based on triples instead of a relation model. I...