Service-Oriented architectures and Service-Oriented Computing are the most recent approaches aiming at facilitating the design and development of applications on distributed system...
: Software agents are often employed in distributed environments to cope with the various dynamical dimensions of such systems. Furthermore, the paradigm of agent-oriented software...
The World Wide Web has undergone a rapid transition from the originally static hypertext to an ubiquitous hypermedia system. Today, the Web is not only used as a basis for distribu...
User interfaces have evolved from punched cards, to text terminals, to windowing systems. As interface standards move into the third dimension, we have the opportunity to ensure t...
A data warehouse collects and integrates data from multiple, autonomous, heterogeneous, sources. The warehouse e ectively maintains one or more materialized views over the source ...
Janet L. Wiener, Himanshu Gupta, Wilburt Labio, Yu...