The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...
There is a general consensus on the importance of good Requirements Engineering (RE) for achieving high quality software. The modeling and analysis of requirements have been the m...
RDF is increasingly being used to represent metadata. RDF Site Summary (RSS) is an application of RDF on the Web that has considerably grown in popularity. However, the way RSS sy...
The organizational and social issues associated with the development, implementation and use of computer-based information systems have increasingly attracted the attention of info...
Distributed hash table (DHT) systems are an important class of peer-to-peer routing infrastructures. They enable scalable wide-area storage and retrieval of information, and will ...