Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm that combines aspects and
technologies coming from different approaches. Ubiquitous computing, pervasive …

Citations are the cornerstone of knowledge propagation and the primary means of
assessing the quality of research, as well as directing investments in science. Science is …

A lot of scientific data is not obtained from measurements but rather derived from other data
by the application of computational procedures. We hypothesize that explicit representation …

VisTrails is a new system that enables interactive multiple-view visualizations by simplifying
the creation and maintenance of visualization pipelines, and by optimizing their execution. It …

Trio is a new database system that manages not only data, but also the accuracy and
lineage of the data. Approximate (uncertain, probabilistic, incomplete, fuzzy, and imprecise!) …

Temporal data mining deals with the harvesting of useful information from temporal data.
New initiatives in health care and business organizations have increased the importance of …

Relational databases have limited support for data collaboration, where teams
collaboratively curate and analyze large datasets. Inspired by software version control …

This article discusses the challenges for Database Management in the Internet of Things.
We provide scenarios to illustrate the new world that will be produced by the Internet of …

Provenance, ie, the origin or source of something, is becoming an important concern, since it
offers the means to verify data products, to infer their quality, to analyse the processes that …

Curated databases in bioinformatics and other disciplines are the result of a great deal of
manual annotation, correction and transfer of data from other sources. Provenance …