In many data-centric applications it is desirable to use OWL as an expressive schema language where one expresses constraints that need to be satisfied by the (instance) data. Howe...
The web is more and more used as a platform for fullfledged, increasingly complex applications, where a huge amount of change-intensive data is managed by underlying database syst...
Gerti Kappel, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwi...
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Since commercial musical recordings became available about a century ago and until very recently, they had always been distributed by means of a physical support. Nowadays that re...
Model composition helps designers managing complexities by modeling different system views separately, and later compose them into an integrated model. In the past years, researche...