Background: The emerging field of integrative bioinformatics provides the tools to organize and systematically analyze vast amounts of highly diverse biological data and thus allo...
Markus Fischer, Quan K. Thai, Melanie Grieb, J&uum...
There is an increasing need for sharing data repositories containing personal information across multiple distributed, possibly untrusted, and private databases. Such data sharing...
We show how model extensibility of object-oriented data management systems can be achieved through the combination of a highlevel core object data model and an architecture designe...
The maintenance of global integrity constraints in database federations is still a challenge since traditional integrity constraint management techniques cannot be applied to such ...
The Workflow Management System AltaVista Works has been extended to be able to process workflows in a distributed, partly even parallel manner. Build-time data are replicated over...