Agent technologies are now being considered for automating tasks in e-commerce applications. However, conventional software agents with predefined functions, but without the abilit...
Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu, Martin L...
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
One of the most challenging problems in the healthcare domain is providing interoperability among healthcare information systems. In order to address this problem, we propose the ...
Veli Bicer, Gokce Laleci, Asuman Dogac, Yildiray K...
According to a survey of the University of Berkeley [6], about 5 Exabytes of new information has been created in 2002. This information explosion affects also the database volumes...