The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
This paper motivates a comprehensive methodological framework for dealing with some aspects of real-world complexity in information system analysis and design. By complex applicat...
Although PDAs typically run applications in a "standalone" mode, they are increasingly equipped with wireless communications, which makes them useful in new domains. Thi...
Efficient and accurate data cleaning is an essential task for the successful deployment of RFID systems. Although important advances have been made in tag detection rates, it is s...
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. Unlike data models, the fundamental asset of ontologies is the...