The Dryad and DryadLINQ systems offer a new programming model for large scale data-parallel computing. They generalize previous execution environments such as SQL and MapReduce in...
The Context Modelling Language (CML), derived from Object Role Modeling (ORM), is a powerful approach for capturing the pertinent object types and relationships between those type...
In this paper we propose a visual interface for the specification of predicates to be used in queries on spatio-temporal databases. The approach is based on a visual specification...
Object-oriented data models are receiving wide attention since they provide expressive ionmechanismsto model naturally and directly both structural and behavioral aspectsof comple...
: In electronic commerce, two fundamental types of models are business models and process models. While a business model is concerned with value exchanges between actors, a process...