Business-IT alignment can be achieved at various levels of maturity. Supposing that an organization has tried to achieve business-IT alignment, a question to face is: how is that o...
Current algorithms cannot be used optimally in (semi)automatic ontology matching tasks as envisioned by the Semantic Web community, mainly because of the inherent dependency betwee...
Our research explores a new database extension. Our aim is to see how far it is possible to support collaborative editing and document provenance with database technology, and exte...
Abstract. Data Warehouse (DWH) systems are used by decision makers for performance measurement and decision support. Currently the main focus of the DWH research field is not as mu...
In this paper, we present the H-Change methodology we have specifically conceived for evolving independent ontologies in open networked systems. Furthermore, we describe the change...
Abstract. Several ontology building methodologies have been developed endowed with different characteristics, however there is not yet a clear method to select the most appropriate...
Michela Chimienti, Michele Dassisti, Antonio De Ni...
This paper outlines an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects as abstractions to capture social ...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...
High availability of information in medium and large-sized enterprises may naturally benefit from a wide-area replication of data. We discuss recent developments of replication arc...
Heterogeneous Business Process Modeling (BPM) schemas have been a problem for business process management throughout the last couple of years. Although there are several standardiz...