Letter from the Editors: Volume 13 Issue 4

Letter from the Special Issue Editors

The prevalence of large volumes and varieties of accessible data is profoundly changing the way business, government and individuals approach decision making. Organizational big data investment strategies regarding what data to collect, clean, integrate, and analyze are typically driven by some notion of perceived value. However, the value of the data is inescapably tied to the underlying quali...

13 Volume Editors

The W3C SPARQL working group is defining the new SPARQL 1.1query language. The current working draft of SPARQL 1.1 focuses mainly on thedescription of the language. In this paper, we provide a formalization of the syntaxand semantics of the SPARQL 1.1 federation extension, an important fragment ofthe language that has not yet received much attention. Besides, we propose opti-<lb...

Proceedings 13 Volume Editors

Every enterprise competes with its software-development processes, its ”recipes” for building better software. In this session, you’ll gain understanding regarding the recipes and mini-recipes advocated within Unified Process (UP), Feature-Driven Development (FDD), and Extreme Programming (XP). You’ll discover recipes and mini-recipes that could be more effective and appealing and effective for...

Letter from the Associate Editors

Letter from the Guest Editors

The simple fact that this special issue is being published suggests that “we've come a long way, baby.” From obesity, vitamin D, and dietary intervention to interventional cardiology and maternal effects on cardiovascular risk in offspring, this issue includes more than a conventional discussion of heart disease in women and differentiates the dogma from the data. Of course, much remains to be ...