Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

Ontologies were developed in Artificial Intelligence to facilitate knowledge sharing and
reuse. Since the beginning of the nineties ontologies have become a popular research topic …

As we enter the new millennium, our approach to product development is evolving rapidly.
Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing …

We describe a suite of standards, resources and tools for computational encoding and
processing of Modern Hebrew texts. These include an array of XML schemas for …

The objective of interoperation is to increase the value of information when information from
multiple sources is accessed, related, and combined. However, care is required to realize …

With the rapid adoption of XML as the meta data format for electronic commerce
applications, many XML-based industrial standards for electronic commerce have been …

This article addresses the problem of entrenchment in large technical systems. It explores in
what manner standardization could be used as a means to inscribe flexibility into …

To promote and encourage interchange of food composition data, the EUROFOODS
working group on food composition data management and interchange proposes a set of …

Presents WebOnCOLL, a World Wide Web-based medical collaboration environment, which
has been designed in the context of the regional healthcare network of Crete. WebOnCOLL …

The World Wide Web has already affected OR/MS work in a significant way, and holds great
potential for changing the nature of OR/MS products and the OR/MS software economy. Web …