Abstract. Most current object-based distributed systems support access control lists for access control. However, it is difficult to determine which principal information to use fo...
The presence of network latency leads to usability problems in distributed groupware applications. Example problems include difficulty synchronizing tightly-coupled collaboration...
Collaborative tagging systems are popular tools for organization, sharing and retrieval of web resources. Their success is due to their freedom and simplicity of use. To post a re...
Query logs record the queries and the actions of the users of search engines, and as such they contain valuable information about the interests, the preferences, and the behavior ...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, De...
Managing the architectural description (AD) of a complex software system and maintaining consistency among the different models is a demanding task. To understand the underlying p...