: For the integration of data that resides in autonomous data sources Software AG uses ontologies. Data source ontologies describe the data sources themselves. Business ontologies ...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
Presence-in-absence is a subjective feeling of a significant other when he or she is not physically copresent and several emerging technologies increasingly aim to support this fe...
We present techniques to index mobile objects in order to efficiently answer range queries about their future positions. This problem appears in real-life applications, such as pr...
Dimitris Papadopoulos, George Kollios, Dimitrios G...
A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is designed for rapid adjustment of production capacity and functionality in response to new market conditions and new process technolo...