Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Shared physical workspaces allow people to maintain upto-the minute knowledge about others' interaction with the workspace. This knowledge is workspace awareness, part of the...
How can the documentation of concepts for complex sociotechnical systems, such as the adoption of groupware, be incorporated into practices of PD? Documents are important in suppo...
Thomas Herrmann, Gabriele Kunau, Kai-Uwe Loser, Na...
Abstract-- Sharing data among collaborators in widely distributed systems remains a challenge due to limitations with existing methods for defining groups across administrative dom...
Many communication-centred systems today rely on asynchronous messaging among distributed peers to make efficient use of parallel execution and resource access. With such asynchron...