Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
Abstract. There is rapidly growing momentum for web enabled agents that reason about and dynamically integrate the appropriate knowledge and services at run-time. The dynamic integ...
Kenneth Baclawski, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Paul A. Ko...
Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Knowledge Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the managementof large volumes of metadata, i.e., information describing the available ...
Gregory Karvounarakis, Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Chr...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
The lack of a flexible consistency management solution hinders P2P implementation of applications involving updates, such as read-write file sharing, directory services, online ...