Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
As enterprise storage needs grow, it is challenging to manage storage systems. The costs of locally managing, supporting, and maintaining resilience in storage systems has skyrock...
Universidade de ´Evora’s Integrated Information System (SIIUE) aims at representing the entire universe of concepts useful for the management and day-to-day operation of the Or...
: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
Data integrity policies often require that quality and integrity metadata be generated and communicated to potential users. However, in data warehouses, federations, and other mul...