Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
Meta modeling is an effective approach to implement interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous information sources on Web. MMFI (Framework for Metamodel Interoperability)...
: This paper describes the practical implementation of a federated health record server based on a generic and comprehensive architecture, deployed in a live clinical setting and a...
Dipak Kalra, David Ingram, A. Austin, V. Griffith,...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
Abstract. This paper describes an architecture for modeling cooperating systems of communicating agents. The authors’ goal is not that of providing a framework to implement multi...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer, Douglas H. No...