Besides the conclusion of agreements about quality of service (QoS), one of the major prerequisites for a global service market are means to monitor the fulfillment of those agreem...
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
Richard P. Spillane, Sachin Gaikwad, Manjunath Chi...
As technological advances are made in software and hardware, the feasibility of accessing information "any time, anywhere" is becoming a reality. Furthermore, the diversi...
We describe the design and evaluation of K-net, a social matching system to help people learn 'who knows what' in an organization by matching people with skills with tho...
N. Sadat Shami, Y. Connie Yuan, Dan Cosley, Ling X...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...