The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstr...
Virtual Actors are at the heart of Interactive Storytelling systems and in recent years multiple approaches have been described to specify their autonomous behaviour. One well kno...
Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...
Several techniques have been proposed for adding persistence to the Java language environment. This paper describes a system we call icee that works by checkpointing the Java Virt...
An important issue in data integration is the integration of semantically equivalent but schematically heterogeneous data sources. Declarative mechanisms supporting powerful source...