i Over the last few years, there has been tremendous business growth in the area of e-business. We are pleased to present a special issue of the Journal of Database Management on the theme " Data Management for e-business ". While the issue of data management in business is relatively mature, e-business imposes special demands, mainly because extensive amounts of data need to be made available ...

Darpa Agent Markup Language (DAML) [7] is the newest effort for Semantic Web [5]. It can be used to create ontologies and markup information resource like web pages. The information resource can be read by human and understood by agent programs. We believed DAML could be used to markup agent communication content and promote knowledge sharing and exchanging between agents. This paper also sugge...

The aim of this work was to design and apply a remote access by means of a mobile phone running the Java based application routine. That Java mobile phone routine communicates with the controlled and monitored system through the GPRS data transfer by means of the internet TCP/IP protocol. The data are transferred in XML format.

Document structures are a crucial mechanism for the creation and the usability of complex hypermedia documents. They form a possibility to deal with the inherent complexity of such documents and with document structures it is also possible to support the reuse of parts of hypermedia documents. In several theoretical approaches different kinds of document structures have been proposed. For examp...

This report explains the objectives, datasets and evaluation criteria of both the clustering and classification tasks set in the INEX 2009 XML Mining track. The report also describes the approaches and results obtained by the different participants.

There has been considerable recent interest in scenarios for accompanying many of the various activities occurring in the development life cycle of computer based systems. Besides the integration of scenarios in methods such as Objectory and software tools such as Rationale Rose has proven useful and successful. Consequently, there is a demand for adapting existing methods to support specific d...

Although the Web has continuously grown and evolved since its introduction in 1989, the technical foundations have remained relatively unchanged. Of the basic technologies, URLs and HTTP has remained stable for some time now, and only HTML has changed more frequently. However, the introduction of XML has heralded a substantial change in the way in which content can be managed. One of the most s...

In this paper, we propose the markup language framework and its associated HTTP protocol extension to support data integrity for active web intermediaries. There are three aspects that our language framework would like to focus on. Firstly, the content server can specify its intended authorization and task to multiple web intermediary proxies in its content objects easily. Secondly, a web inter...

Adaptive hypertext provides a powerful approach to the problems of providing information that is appropriate to the diverse needs of users, and it is most commonly implemented in education. In this paper we describe how an experimental XML-based adaptive learning environment (WHURLE) has been built to facilitate the creation of reusable educational content. WHURLE authors fall into three catego...

This article proposes an extension to the Policy Based Network Management (PBNM). Specifically, we propose an approach for the distribution of management policies with the focus on Quality of Service. This approach communicates the management up to the point of decision. This requires corrective actions for the device, reporting changes in the configuration, registering of the managed resources...