At early stages in the design of real-time embedded applications, the timing attributes of the computational activities are often incompletely specified or subject to changes. Lat...
The more the information technologies begin to be incorporated into the industrial productive fabric, the more complex it becomes to organise them. It is vital to implant proactiv...
In this paper, we describe data support in an information system to support contextual, online negotiation of privacy contracts for e-commerce on the Semantic Web. Context is impo...
The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in reference models for the construction of specific information models. The orient...
The dream of pervasive multimedia retrieval and reuse will not be realized without incorporating semantics in the multimedia database. As video data is penetrating many informatio...