—Trusted Collaborative Computing (TCC) is a new research and application paradigm. Two important challenges in such a context are represented by secure information transmission a...
In recent years much attention has been paid to networkbased, distributed environments like text-based MUDs and MOOs for supporting collaborative work. Such environments offer a s...
To date the adoption and diffusion of technology enabled solutions to deliver better healthcare has been slow. There are many reasons for this. One of the most significant is that...
Internet based services, particularly asynchronous communication services, offer an environment suited to the rise of knowledge communities. Knowledge communities, or invisible co...
This tutorial introduces the concept of XML Structural Summaries and describes their role within XML retrieval. It covers the usage of those summaries for Database-style query pro...