To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
Beyond already existing huge data volumes, e-science communities face major challenges in managing the anticipated data deluge of forthcoming projects. Community-driven data grids...
Ontologies have been extensively used to model domain-specific knowledge. Recent research has applied ontologies to enhance the discovery and retrieval of geographic data in Spatia...
Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...