Edit distance based string similarity join is a fundamental operator in string databases. Increasingly, many applications in data cleaning, data integration, and scientific compu...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
In this paper, we describe the enabling technologies to develop a smart meeting system based on a three layered generic model. From physical level to semantic level, it consists o...
Software-intensive systems are systems of systems that rely on complex interdependencies among themselves as well as with their operational environment to satisfy the required beh...
Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...