This paper considers an issue raised by Lehman at ISPW 9, where he stated that the software process is a ‘learning’ process. We examine the ramifications of that statement, and of the nature and impact of that learning, in the context of the process controlling the evolution of a software product over time and multiple releases. We present a high-level model of the software process which descri...

Active XML (AXML) documents combine extensional XML data with intentional data defined through Web service calls. The dynamic properties of these documents pose challenges to both storage and data materialization techniques. We present ARAXA, a non-intrusive approach to store AXML documents. It takes advantage of complex objects from object-relational DBMS to represent both extensional and inte...

INTRODUCTION Ever since the Extensible Markup Language (XML) (W3C, 1998b) began to be used to exchange data between diverse sources, interest has grown in deploying data management technology to store and query XML documents. A number of approaches propose to adapt relational database technology to store The advantage is that the XML repository inherits all the power of mature relational techno...

RDF is the first W3C standard for enriching information resources of the Web with detailed meta data. The semantics of RDF data is defined using a RDF schema. The most expressive language for querying RDF is RQL, which enables querying of semantics. In order to support RQL, a RDF storage system has to map the RDF graph model onto its storage structure. Several storage systems for RDF data have ...

This paper investigates how new database technologies, in particular, complex object databases, object-oriented databases, and deduc-tive databases, can be used to store object-oriented graphic data and discusses the related problems.

Social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have been growing exponentially in the last few years. As a result of this growth, the amount of social data increased enormously. The need for storing and analyzing social data became crucial. New storage solutions – also called NoSQL – were therefore created to fulfill this need. This thesis will analyze the structure of social data and give an ov...

Many web applications operate on large amount of web data. How to store and access the data itself is becoming a serious problem, especially with the dynamic of the web. This paper introduces an approach that helps applications to manage evolving web data efficiently, saving a lot of storage space with fast access to the data. One important feature of this framework is that the worst case of ra...

Knowledge management systems (KMS) are designed to support and enhance the process of creating, storing, retrieving and transferring knowledge. In this contribution we investigate the use of such systems for the acquisition of knowledge in humanitarian disaster response teams. First, we present a framework describing how KMS should enhance group process gains and alleviate group process losses,...

Project management is a complex process regulated by project management methodologies, standards and other requirements. Project management information systems are used to support project management activities. To ensure effective use of the project management information system, it is necessary that the system could be configured according requirements of the chosen methodology. The configurat...