The research for this monograph on web information systems started in the mid-1990s,
when the second author was confronted with the desire of the information service for …

The success and effectiveness of disaster management increasingly depend on the ability of
a disaster response team to quickly and flexibly react to changes in unanticipated …

Database research and practice has brought up a large body of knowledge and experience.
This experience and knowledge is based on solutions for database structures that occur and …

Conceptual modelling in the area of data-intensive systems produces database schemata
and a variety of systems characteristics, which ideally could be used to facilitate the …

Globalisation has a strong impact on information systems both from a development and
usage point of view. Development is done by geographically distributed teams, with team …

Workflow management systems provide support for structured processes and help to follow
the defined business process. Although their importance has been proved by various …

E-Learning systems provide content to learners depending on their learning task, their
personality, their working environment, their learning history and the policy of the content …

Content and content management have become buzzwords. The notions are neither well-
defined nor used in a standard way. Content objects are complex structured. Different users …

The building blocks of emerging Petascale massively parallel processing (MPP) systems are
multi-core processors with four or more cores as a single processing element and a …

The discipline of software engineering is increasingly shifting from classical design and
development tasks towards tasks concerning reuse, adaptation, and integration. Driving …