A key question in the field of agent-oriented software engineering is how the kind and extent of autonomy owned by computational agents can be appropriately captured. As long as ...
As XML is gathering more and more importance in the field of data interchange in distributed business to business (B2B) applications, it is increasingly important to provide a for...
A set of presentations covering the book, which includes the following topics ER Model and Conceptual Design, The Relational Model and SQL DDL, Relational Algebra, SQL, Database Ap...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Real-life date is often dirty and costs billions of pounds to businesses worldwide each year. This paper presents a promising approach to improving data quality. It effectively det...