In this paper we present practical experiences gathered from the employment of two popular Java-based mobile-agent platforms, IBM's Aglets and Mitsubishi's Concordia. We...
George Samaras, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Constantinos ...
Dynamic assembly of complex software is possible through automated composition of web services. Coordination scripts identify and orchestrate a number of services to fulfil a user ...
Environmental databases store a wide variety of data from heterogeneous sources which are described with domain-specific terminologies and refer to distinct locations. In order to ...
Abstract. The ostensive model assumes that a user’s information need is dynamic and developing, thus, a recently accessed object can be seen as more indicative to the current inf...
Accessing and integrating data from heterogeneous sources has become a significant challenge. So-called adapters provide the functionality for translating SQL queries into querie...