Abstract - We discuss the impact of locally implemented behaviour on global behaviour specification in a federation of object-oriented databases. In particular, given a specificati...
In today's Web, many functionality-wise similar Web services are offered through heterogeneous interfaces (operation definitions) and business protocols (ordering constraints...
Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Axel...
Multidimensional modeling requires specialized design techniques. Though a lot has been written about how a data warehouse should be designed, there is no consensus on a design me...
For decades, researchers in knowledge representation (KR) have argued for and against various choices in KR formalisms, such as Rules, Frames, Semantic nets, and Formal logic. In ...
This paper describes a method for controlling the behavior of mobile agent-system entities through the allocation of privileges. Privileges refer to policy rules that govern the a...