The public safety community in the United States consists of thousands of local, state, and federal agencies, each with its own information system. In the past few years, there ha...
The development of the semantic Web will require agents to use common domain ontologies to facilitate communication of conceptual knowledge. However, the proliferation of domain on...
There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...
: This keynote reports on a new class of processes - so called fluid processes - whose ”engineering” and ”use” is indistinguishable. Fluid processes are continually being ...