As we enter the new millennium, the approach to product development is evolving rapidly. Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing environmen...
In a video database, large amount of information involving video, audio, and/or images needs to be stored and managed. Therefore, there is an important need for novel techniques a...
Conventional software engineering tends to focus on a small part of the software life cycle: the design and implementation of a product. The bulk of the lifetime cost is in the ma...
This paper presents a model of hierarchical organization of Certification Authorities which can be applied to any open system network. In order to study the feasibility of the pro...
The hypermedia field has long realized the need for firstructural abstractions. However, we have failed to generalize the concept of ubiquitous structure management to problem dom...