Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding ...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
Information system models commonly describe organizations in terms of the structure of the data they use, the organization of the processes they perform and the operations that wil...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...