A key observation is that the invariants in database management determine the mapping steps of the supporting architecture. Referring to the multi-layered architecture of record-or...
Abstract—A text filtering system monitors a stream of incoming documents, to identify those that match the interest profiles of its users. The user interests are registered at ...
Abstract. Existing approaches to the management of streaming positional updates generally assume that all active user requests have equal importance, ignoring the possibility of an...
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
A system for the acquisition, storage, indexing, and retrieval of map images is presented. The input to this system are raster images of separate map layers and map composites. A ...