Modern digital libraries require user-friendly and yet responsive access to the rapidly growing, heterogeneous, and distributed collection of information sources. However, the inc...
Abstract In future, parallel and distributed computing paradigms will replace nowadays predominant sequential and centralized ones. Facing the challenge to support the construction...
A contemporary approach to describing and theorizing about joint human endeavor is to posit `knowledge in common' as a basis for awareness and coordination. Recent analysis h...
John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Gregorio Conver...
Nowadays more and more devices of daily life are connected to each other and are integrated into massively distributed networks of embedded devices. These devices range from consu...
Christian Buckl, Stephan Sommer, Andreas Scholz, A...
Geo-sciences involve large-scale parallel models, high resolution real time data from highly asynchronous and heterogeneous sensor networks and instruments, and complex analysis a...