The need to distribute objects on the Internet and to offer views from databases has found a solution with the advent of CORBA. Most database management systems now offer CORBA in...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
A distributed XML document is an XML document that spans several machines or Web repositories. We assume that a distribution design of the document tree is given, providing an XML...
—Civil Engineering is a discipline providing one of the most challenging environments for integration and interoperability. Great hopes are wired and wireless networking technolo...
One potential problem of active database applications is the non-termination of rules. Although algorithms have been proposed to detect non-termination, almost all provide a conser...