Many distributed systems manage some form of long-lived data, such as files or data bases. The performance and fault-tolerance of such systems may be enhanced if the repositories ...
Alignment of organisational strategy with Information Systems Strategy (ISS) has become critical as adoption of Information Systems (IS) over the last 50 years has escalated. IS c...
—A massive volume of biological sequence data is available in over 36 different databases worldwide, including the sequence data generated by the Human Genome project. These data...
Recently TRW fielded a prototype system for a government customer. It provides a wide range of capabilities including data collection, hierarchical storage, automated distribution...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...