Next generation applications and architectures (for example, Grids) are driving radical changes in the nature of traffic, service models, technology, and cost, creating opportunit...
Tal Lavian, Joe Mambretti, Doug Cutrell, Howard J....
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
The XML language is a W3C standard sustained by both the industry and the scientific community. Therefore, the available information annotated in XML keeps and will keep increasing...
Eugen Popovici, Pierre-Francois Marteau, Gildas M&...
A social network is defined as a social structure of individuals, who are related (directly or indirectly to each other) based on a common relation of interest, e.g. friendship, t...
In the construction industry, a specialist subcontractor manages a taskforce of single-skilled laborers to work on multiple construction sites, aiming to minimize the total cost a...