For almost a decade, Content-Based Image Retrieval has been an active research area, yet one fundamental problem remains largely unsolved: how to measure perceptual similarity. To...
The coordination-policy that components interactions satisfied often determines the properties of nowadays component-based information systems, e.g. Safety, Liveness and Fairness ...
Gatekeeping/Information Control is exercised frequently and daily in virtual communities. Gatekeeping exists in four different levels: Regulators, service providers, communitiesâ€...
Semantic Web Services offer the possibility of highly flexible web service architectures, where new services can be quickly discovered, orchestrated and composed into workflows....
Phillip W. Lord, Pinar Alper, Chris Wroe, Carole A...
We have developed a middleware framework for workgroup environments that can support distributed software development and a variety of other application domains requiring document...