Interoperability in service oriented environments is heavily inuenced by the view that the cooperating services have on their data. e term service for the abstract contract concl...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a virtual laboratory that is designed to accelerate scientific exploration and discovery by minimizing the time between the generation of a scie...
Judith Ellen Devaney, Steven G. Satterfield, John ...
Background: Information resources on the World Wide Web play an indispensable role in modern biology. But integrating data from multiple sources is often encumbered by the need to...
J. Christopher Bare, Paul T. Shannon, Amy K. Schmi...
The vision of an integrated Earth observation system to help protect and sustain the planet and its inhabitants is significant and timely, and thus has been identified recently by...
The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...