There are now a large number of repositories in the world, contributing a significant amount of content to the world's scholars and scientists. The landscape has changed sinc...
By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...
Abstract. The call for a "focus on content" in ontology research by Nicola Guarino and Mark Musen in their launching statement of the journal Applied Ontology has quite s...
We present experience with improving the requirements engineering process for a telecommunications electronic clearinghouse that connects multiple trading partners. Software failu...
Abstract. Due to the changing scope of data management towards the management of heterogeneous and distributed systems and applications, integration processes gain in importance. T...