Enterprises have a lot of data locked up in their operational data stores, warehouses, documents and so on, from which it should be possible to extract a lot of useful knowledge that can help them plan their businesses better and serve their customers better. However the success of this depends entirely on the quality of data available, and unfortunately in most organizations there is very litt...

Operation and maintenance play an important role in extracting power from the wind, especially, in offshore wind energy where wind farms are located far off the shore and under harsh weather conditions. Improved operation and maintenance is likely to reduce costs as well as hazard exposure of the employees. Implementation of advanced information technology is thus crucial for operating offshore...

Current approaches in schema mapping and matching focus on pair-wise comparison of schemas. This chapter gives an overview of how n-way comparison of schemas via a unified data model for large-scale multi-schema integration (ULMI) can benefit to schema matching and mapping processes. The approach integrates a set of input schemas into one comprehensive representation. Thus, a unified data model...

Reanalysis or retrospective analysis is the process of re-analyzing and assimilating climate and weather observations with the current modeling context. Reanalysis is an objective, quantitative method of synthesizing all sources of information (historical and real-time observations) within a unified framework. In this context, we propose a prototype for automated and virtualized web services so...

One of the most important and critical part of integrating already existing standalone applications is to design and implement a common data model and the corresponding data access layer which makes both data sources and processed results being shared and accessible over the applications in question. In case of even well-architected applications or application systems, establishing a common dat...

Data models created to store or exchange data between systems are, by nature, heterogeneous in terms of standards and representation. In this research project, a novel approach called Semantic Markers, along with ontologies are used to integrate the heterogeneous data schema common in manufacturing systems. Once integrated, the schema can provide interfaces for global queries, synchronization a...

The horizontal integration of systems by message-based communication via middleware products is a widespread method of application integration to ensure an adequate loose coupling of participating systems and applications. For the description of such service integration processes, the use of functionally oriented process description languages, like WSBPEL, is gaining in importance. However, the...

Due to the changing scope of data management from centrally stored data towards the management of distributed and heterogeneous systems, the integration takes place on different levels. The lack of standards for information integration as well as application integration resulted in a large number of different integration models and proprietary solutions. With the aim of a high degree of portabi...

Music genre classification systems are normally build as a feature extraction module followed by a classifier. The features are often short-time features with time frames of 10-30ms, although several characteristics of music require larger time scales. Thus, larger time frames are needed to take informative decisions about musical genre. For the MIREX music genre contest several authors derive ...