It is not unusual in the information technology (IT) literature to see different perspectives
expressed on the same technology, particularly when it is of critical concern as an …

Information technology has been playing a fundamental role in the tourism industry for a
long time. The Internet particularly is increasingly emerging as a perfect platform to bring …

Policy-based management for federated healthcare systems has recently gained increasing
attention due to strict privacy and disclosure rules. Although the work on privacy languages …

Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the
object model as federating model. This paper gives an overview of the XMLMedia system, a …

XML has emerged as the leading language for representing and exchanging data not only
on the Web, but also in general in the enterprise. XQuery is emerging as the standard query …

The role of security management in the RHIOs has recently gained increasing attention due
to strict privacy and disclosure rules, and federal regulations such as HIPAA. The envisioned …

This paper presents a new approach for generating configured and flexible middleware
systems for integration of heterogeneous and distributed data. The configuration is based on …

A broad spectrum of tourism information is already distributed over various web sites.
However, a major problem for the tourist is to find these web sites and to deal with the …

To cope with the difficulties of Web information search, lots of technologies related to Web
search engines have been proposed and have also seen very successful applications …

Web Service Console On the Internet, data are distributed on heterogeneous sources. To
integrate them in a uniform view, lots of systems based on the famous mediator/wrapper …