An important application of XML is the interchange of electronic data (EDI) between multiple data sources on the Web. As XML data proliferates on the Web, applications will need t...
The need to distribute objects on the Internet and to offer views from databases has found a solution with the advent of CORBA. Most database management systems now offer CORBA in...
The preservation of digital artifacts represents an unanswered challenge for the modern information society: XML and its query languages provide an effective environment to addre...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
Frameworks and Patterns are important instruments that enable the reuse of successful software solutions in recurrent problems. Geographic information systems, on the other hand, ...