Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous attention. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes (the peers) pool together their ...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and n...
Setting up runtime security policies as required for firewalls or as envisioned by policy languages for the Semantic Web is a difficult task, especially for lay users who have l...
At present, the search for specific information on the World Wide Web is faced with several problems, which arise on the one hand from the vast number of information sources avail...
Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Giuliana Sabbatini, Ha...