The growing use of multimedia communication applications with specific bandwidth and real time delivery requirements has created the need for a new Internet in which traditional be...
Middleware has been introduced to provide interoperability as well as transparent location of servers in heterogeneous client-server environments. Although such benefits accrue fro...
From an ecological but also from an economical and in the meantime a technical view the fast ongoing increase of power consumption in today’s data centers is no longer feasible....
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...