Energy consumption and the associated environmental impact are a pressing challenge faced by the transportation sector. Emerging electric-drive vehicles have shown promises for su...
: XML is rapidly emerging as a standard for exchanging business data on the World Wide Web. For the foreseeable future, however, most business data will continue to be stored in re...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Eugene J. Shekita, Rimon...
We propose ontological blending as a new method for `creatively' combining ontologies. In contrast to other combination techniques that aim at integrating or assimilating cate...
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, John A....
Pervasive context-aware software is an emerging kind of application. Smart personal digital assistants and RFID-based location sensing software are two examples. Many of these sys...
Component-based development is the emerging paradigm in software production, though several challenges still slow down its full taking up. In particular, the "component trust...