The goal of this paper is to bring together the worlds of design and active databases. Design databases have to provide a powerful data model for complex structured design data as ...
XML is a now a dominant standard for storing and exchanging information. With its increasing use in areas such as data warehousing and e-commerce, there is a rapidly growing need ...
James Bailey, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter T. Wo...
RDF is one of the technologies proposed to realise the vision of the Semantic Web and it is being increasingly used in distributed web-based applications. The use of RDF in applic...
George Papamarkos, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter ...
Web service applications integrate explicit client-service interactions with notification-style programming. Such event-driven interactions are often called implicit invocations b...
Abstract. The Semantic Web is based on XML and RDF as its fundamental standards for exchanging and storing information on the World Wide Web. Event-condition-action (ECA) rules are...
Alexandra Poulovassilis, George Papamarkos, Peter ...
The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise...
The properties of contents stored in a computer system are very wide while the data volume treated in the system becomes very large. It is important to treat each stored object in...
Kensuke Ohta, Dai Kobayashi, Takashi Kobayashi, Ry...
A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
XML repositories are now a widespread means for storing and exchanging information on the Web. As these repositories become increasingly used in dynamic applications such as e-com...
James Bailey, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter T. Wo...