Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Network-based information systems use well-defined standards to ensure interoperability and also have a tightly coupled relationship between their internal data representation an...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
With the growth and acceptance of the Internet, there has been increased interest in maintaining anonymity in the network. Using traffic analysis, it is possible to infer who is t...
Arjan Durresi, Vamsi Paruchuri, Leonard Barolli, R...
Auto-ID technologies allow capturing the time and location of products in the supply chain for tracking and tracing. This paves the way for a variety of business applications, suc...
Traditional methods for integrity checking in relational or deductive databases heavily rely on the assumption that data have integrity before the execution of updates. In this wa...
Internet should be used to reduce distances and bring people virtually closer. Using ICT, many people has overcome the problem of digital divided [1] thanks to support of informat...
Flavio Corradini, Alberto Polzonetti, Romeo Pruno,...
This paper briefly reviews the recent literature on consistent query answering, an approach to handle database inconsistency in a systematic and logical manner based on the notio...
Besides being adopted as the new general data representation format for the Internet, XML is finding increasing acceptance as a native data exchange language. In order to fully e...