Firms invest heavily to develop on-line cooperative systems in the hope of creating unique value in the minds of their customers. However, when system use begins to decline, firms...
This position paper supports the view that a model based on shared objects is an attractive alternative to message passing for structuring distributed applications and that a distr...
Pierre-Yves Chevalier, Daniel Hagimont, Sacha Krak...
We present the PPOST-architecture (Persistent Parallel Object Store) for main-memory database systems on parallel computers, that is suited for applications with challenging perfor...
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
Abstract. The Web and the Semantic Web, as we see it, can be understood as a “living organism” combining autonomously evolving data sources, each of them possibly reacting to e...