Abstract. Recent advances in materials, sensing, power harvesting, contextawareness and miniaturisation have opened-up the possibility of constructing materials that directly inclu...
Simon Dobson, Kieran Delaney, Kafil Mahmood Razeeb...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
In the context of open environments like the Semantic Web, knowledge-based applications with autonomous knowledge sources have recently gained increased interest. For such sources...
Tina Froehner, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß...
A web portal is a platform for information presentation and information exchange over the Internet in a community of interest. Conventional web technologies used in web portals pr...
Dieter Fensel, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg, R...
Orc is a kernel language for structured concurrent programming. Orc provides three powerful combinators that define the structure of a concurrent computation. These combinators su...
Ian Wehrman, David Kitchin, William R. Cook, Jayad...