Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precis...
In this paper, we present methods of translating transactions from object-oriented database(OODB) to relational database(RDB). The process involves schema mapping in data definiti...
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
The Unified Software Development Process (USDP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) have been now generally accepted as the standard methodology and modeling language for developin...
We advocate a desktop virtual reality (VR) interface to a geographic information system (GIS). The navigational capability to explore large topographic scenes is a powerful metaph...
Renato Pajarola, Thomas Ohler, Peter Stucki, Korne...