Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In...
Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish L...
A question based knowledge management system with the capability to integrate heterogeneous sources of information and knowledge and which nonetheless acts like a single coherent ...
Alexander Schatten, Franz Inselkammer, A. Min Tjoa
“Radio Frequency Identification” (RFID) and the related EPC standards promise to enable an automatic collection of supply chain data for optimization purposes. While extensive...
Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm that allows users and companies to give their (potentially sensitive) data to external servers that then become responsible for their stor...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...
The management of IT landscapes consisting of thousands of business applications, different middleware systems, and supporting various business processes is a challenge for modern...