Abstract. In the engineering domain, the development of complex products (e.g., cars) necessitates the coordination of thousands of (sub-)processes. One of the biggest challenges f...
Answering aggregate queries like sum, count, min, max over regions containing moving objects is often needed for virtual world applications, real-time monitoring systems, etc. Sin...
Knowledge management (KM) systems aim at supporting knowledge workers in general and software engineers in particular. These tools help to elicit, structure, and retrieve knowledg...
Pre-computation and materialization of views with aggregate functions is a common technique in Data Warehouses. Due to the complex structure of the warehouse and the different pro...
Two recent projects at ORA have used a blackboard framework during system design.1 DANA is a multimedia network monitoring system, while MARRS is a real-time passive radar system....