An important activity in the design of a particular database application consists in identifying the integrity constraints that must hold on the database, and that are used to det...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Clodove...
Metadata are widely used in order to fully exploit information resources available on corporate intranets or the Internet. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilit...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality f...
Background: Information resources on the World Wide Web play an indispensable role in modern biology. But integrating data from multiple sources is often encumbered by the need to...
J. Christopher Bare, Paul T. Shannon, Amy K. Schmi...
The application of structured overlay networks to implement index structures for data-oriented applications such as peer-to-peer databases or peer-to-peer information retrieval, r...
Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, R...