This paper describes and contrasts findings from two related projects where groups of science pupils investigated local air pollution using a collection of mobile sensors and devic...
Search computing has been proposed to support the integration of the results of search engines with other data and computational resources. In essence, in search computing, search ...
Marco Masseroli, Norman W. Paton, Giorgio Ghisalbe...
In this paper we thoroughly analyze a distributed procedure for the problem of local database update in a network of database peers, useful for data exchange scenarios. The algorit...
Enrico Franconi, Gabriel M. Kuper, Andrei Lopatenk...
The Grid is an emerging platform to support on-demand "virtual organisations" for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale. The application thr...
The Concept of Populated Information Terrains (PITS) aims to extend database technology with key ideas from the new fields of Virtual Reality (VR) and Computer Supported Cooperativ...