Journal on Data Semantics I

This book constitutes the first volume of the first journal in the new LNCS Jo— nalSubline,theJournalonDataSemantics. Publishing a journal in a book series might come as a surprise to customers, readers, and librarians, thus we would like to provide some background information and our motivation for introducing this new LNCS subline. As a consequence of the very tight interaction between the Lecture Notes in ComputerScienceseriesandtheinternationalcomputerscienceresearchand— velopment commu...