In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We
have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in …

Schema versioning is one of a number of related areas dealing with the same general
problem—that of using multiple heterogeneous schemata for various database related tasks …

The research area of ontology engineering seems to have reached a certain level of
maturity, considering the vast amount of contemporary methods and tools for formalising and …

Achieving correct changes is the dominant activity in the application software industry.
Modification of database schemata is one kind of change which may have severe …

Ownership types provide a statically enforceable way of specifying object encapsulation and
enable local reasoning about program correctness in object-oriented languages. However …

Object-oriented unit tests consist of sequences of method invocations. Behavior of an
invocation depends on the state of the receiver object and method arguments at the …

Datasets in the LOD cloud are far from being static in their nature and how they are exposed.
As resources are added and new links are set, applications consuming the data should be …

Schema evolution is a problem that is faced by long-lived data. When a schema changes,
existing persistent data can become inaccessible unless the database system provides …

When the schema of an object-oriented database system is modified, the database needs to
be changed in such a way that the schema and the database remain consistent with each …

This paper develops a formal information structuring model based on the premise that an
information system represents knowledge about things in an organization. Since humans …