A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...
We propose a semi-automated method for redeploying bioinformatic databases indexed in a Web portal as a decentralized, semantically integrated and service-oriented Data Grid. We g...
Many information systems store their objects in a relational database. If the object schema or the relational schema of an application can change often or in an independent way, it...
Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...