Disconnection and reconnection are common problems for users of synchronous groupware, but these problems are not easy for developers to handle because of the wide range of scenar...
Based on the framework of service-oriented architecture (SOA), complex distributed systems can be dynamically and automatically composed by integrating distributed Web services pr...
Novel forms of collaboration increasingly distribute control among e-workers, thereby allowing agile and autonomous collaboration. However, this requires a novel blend of infrastr...
Daniel Schall, Christoph Dorn, Schahram Dustdar, I...
In today’s electronic system-level (ESL) design processes, an early analysis of a system’s communication and nce characteristics is becoming a key challenge. The availability ...
Axel G. Braun, Joachim Gerlach, Wolfgang Rosenstie...
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...