There are a number of issues for information systems which are required to collect data urgently that are not well accommodated by current conceptual modelling methodologies and a...
Approximate data matching applications typically use similarity functions to quantify the degree of likeness between two data instances. There are several similarity functions ava...
Carlos A. Heuser, Francisco N. A. Krieser, Viviane...
Software systems embed in them knowledge about the domain in which they operate. However, this knowledge is “latent”. Making such knowledge accessible could be of great value ...
Recent research in e-contracts is concerned with the development of frameworks and tools to support contracts. EREC framework is one that enables modelling and deployment of e-con...
Anushree Khandekar, P. Radha Krishna, Kamalakar Ka...
Integration of large databases by expert teams is only a small part of the data integration activities that take place. Users without data integration expertise very often gather,...
An e-contract is a contract modeled, specified, executed, controlled and monitored by a software system. Econtract evolves over a period of time and there are many scenarios of ch...
Frequently the behaviour of an information system is functionally correct, but it does not meet some quality criteria, such as completeness, consistency, and usability. One way to...
1 A number of e-Processes (i.e. software processes for developing e-Commerce information systems) exist in industry. We presuppose that for a subclass of these their targeted quali...
Roland Kaschek, Frina Albertyn, Vladimir A. Shekho...
Misfolding of membrane proteins plays an important role in many human diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, heredity deafness and diabetes insipidus. Single molecule force spectr...
Today, there are several approaches supporting an integrated processing of XML and (object-)relational data sources. However, each of these approaches favors a single data model f...