Much of the data that we encounter has a spatial (geographic locational) aspect yet this has not been readily exploited by traditional RDBMS. Over the past five years there has be...
Looking at the ongoing evolution in electronic commerce there are more and more business models becoming significant. E-shops, e-auctions or etendering are not the only possibiliti...
The GOLEM project is an attempt to extend evolutionary techniques into the physical world by evolving diverse electro-mechanical machines (robots) that can be fabricated automatic...
The Web has become a ubiquitous environment for application delivery. The originally intended idea, as a distributed system for knowledgeinterchange, has given way to organizations...
The architecture is the fundamental framework for designing and implementing large scale software, and the ability to trace and control its evolution is essential. However, many t...