An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...
This paper reports the results of exploratory research to develop a pilot pattern language for systems engineers at BAE SYSTEMS. The pattern language was designed to encapsulate k...
Semantic Web, the next generation of Web, gives data well-defined and machine-understandable meaning so that they can be processed by remote intelligent agents cooperatively. Onto...
Jin Song Dong, Chew Hung Lee, Yuan-Fang Li, Hai H....
Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance req...
We consider source requantization in two forms -- successive degradation (i.e., source fidelity reduction) and bit stealing (i.e., information embedding) -when no forward planning...
Aaron S. Cohen, Stark C. Draper, Emin Martinian, G...