Technology to support knowledge transfer and cooperative inquiry must offer its users the ability to effectively interpret knowledge structures produced by collaborators. Communic...
Open-source software, usually created by volunteer programmers dispersed worldwide, now competes with that developed by software firms. This achievement is particularly impressive...
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
The paper presents a Java-based object-oriented system that offers a layered infrastructure to create the adequate framework for complex interactions between Grid components (e.g....
Abstract. To meet the new, more sophisticated needs of decision makers, a new generation of BI systems is emerging. In this paper we focus on two enabling technologies for this new...