Big Data and NoSQL technologies are simultaneously marketing hypes and tools that could significantly change the database and application development landscape. This paper argues that, despite the negation and revolt suggested by their name, NoSQL data stores are rather a complement of...

Nowadays in the academic circles being a Bologna-sceptic is in fashion. Mass-media abounds in former and present students, professors, (vice) deans, (vice) rectors who lament about the drawbacks of Bologna process. In Romania and in many EU Universities a strange idea is induced, that the...

The flood of books, papers, conferences, and workshops about knowledge management, knowledge economy, knowledge workers, and knowledge society is incessant. Europe wants to become the best knowledge-based economy in the world. Millions of Euros are pumped every year in national and international...

In spite of its power in terms of data manipulation and integrity support, the relational model has been considered as not having too much to offer for modelling semantics of the real world applications. Consequently, a number of semantic data models have been proposed to design relational...