We introduce the notion of a conditioned-safe ceremony. A “ceremony” is similar to the conventional notion of a protocol, except that a ceremony explicitly includes human part...
Service-based systems are distributed computing systems with the major advantage of enabling rapid composition of distributed applications, such as collaborative research and deve...
Stephen S. Yau, Haishan Gong, Dazhi Huang, Wei Gao...
ABSTRACT: In the context of Internet-based applications where heterogeneous, legacy entities should integrate and cooperate, the efficiency of the software production process is a ...
Awareness is an essential requirement in collaborative activities. This paper presents Ariane, a generic and reusable awareness infrastructure, independent of a specific applicatio...
: The availability of applications able to exploit multi-device environments is steadily increasing. Rather than using all devices in the same way, users tend to assign different r...