Users tend to use the Internet for “resource-hungry” applications (which involve content such as video, audio on-demand and distributed data) and at the same time, more and mo...
George Pallis, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali,...
Numerous applications such as stock market or medical information systems require that both historical and current data be logically integrated into a temporal database. The under...
Peter Muth, Patrick E. O'Neil, Achim Pick, Gerhard...
: Retrenchment is introduced as a liberalisation of refinement intended to address some of the shortcomings of refinement as sole means of progressing from simple abstract models t...
Abstract--With the availability of powerful computational and communication systems, scientists now readily access large, complicated derived datasets and build on those results to...
Leon J. Osterweil, Lori A. Clarke, Aaron M. Elliso...
ss domain. Using this more abstract approach means that more data sources of varying types can be incorporated with less effort, and such heterogeneous data sources might be very r...