Artful business processes are informal processes typically carried out by those people whose work is mental rather than physical (managers, professors, researchers, etc.), the so called "knowledge workers". In this paper we outline how to automatically build, on top of a collection of e-mail...

Record Linkage (RL) aims at identifying pairs of records coming from different sources and representing the same real world object. Despite several methods have been proposed to face RL problems, none of them seems to be at the same time fully automated and very effective. In this paper we...

The combined use of statistical and administrative sources allow to save time and money, reducing survey costs, response burden, etc.; sometimes data sources are hard to integrate since errors or lacking information in the record identifiers may complicate this process. The purpose of record...

This paper provides directions for web and e-commerce applications security. In particular, access control policies, workflow security, XML security and federated database security issues pertaining to the web and ecommerce applications are discussed.