End-users increasingly find the need to perform light-weight, customized schema mapping. State-of-the-art tools provide powerful functions to generate schema mappings, but they u...
We explore the ways in which interfaces can be designed to deceive users so as to create the illusion of magic. We present a study of an experimental performance in which a magici...
Abstract. The Internet and the Web have extended traditional business networks by allowing a Web of different digital resources to work together to create value for organizations. ...
A MAS architecture consisting of service centers is proposed. Within each service center, a mediator coordinates service delivery by allocating individual tasks to corresponding t...
Multicast communication, which involves transmitting information from one node to multiple nodes, is a vital operation in both broadband integrated services digital networks (BISD...