Traditionally, database management systems (DBMSs) have been associated with high-cost, high-quality functionalities. That is, powerful capabilities are provided, but only in respo...
The unprecedented growth of data at geographically distributed locations coupled with tremendous improvement in networking capabilities over the last decade strongly motivate the ...
The main barriers to the level of electronic data interchange required to seamlessly integrate services offered by legacy systems in an Internet environment are the need for appli...
G. M. Bryan, Joanne M. Curry, Carolyn McGregor, D....
Traditional client-server applications relegate query and persistence operations on their data to database systems. The database system operates on data in the form of rows and ta...
The users of libraries of object-oriented software components face with both a terminological and a cognitive gap. Usually, library users do not understand the vocabulary used in t...