This paper presents an architecture for location aware applications, where positioning sources such as GPS, WaveLAN and Bluetooth devices can be seamlessly interchanged or even co...
While Enterprise Architecture Modeling (EAM) methodologies become more and more popular, an EAM methodology tailored to the needs of virtual organizations (VO) is still to be devel...
A frequent dilemma in the design of a database programming language is the choice between a language with a rich set of tailored notations for schema definitions, query expression...
Applications that query into very large multidimensional datasets are becoming more common. Many self-describing scientific data file formats have also emerged, which have structu...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...