—In this paper we describe the evolution of eConference, a text-based conferencing system that has turned into a collaborative platform. We draw the lessons learned from the evol...
Searching for non-text data (e.g., images) is mostly done by means of metadata annotations or by extracting the text close to the data. However, supporting real content-based audi...
: This paper proposes a technology for the development of distributed real-time component-based applications, which takes advantage of the features that Ada offers for the developm...
m, modules, types and operations), different kinds of abstractions (functional/data, types/objects etc.) without falling into a loose collection of diagram languages. Considering a...
—This paper studies the problem of allocating network capacity through periodic auctions. Motivated primarily by a service overlay architecture, we impose the following condition...