Abstract. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of datacentric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and various ...
Thepurposeof this paperis to extendverificationtests to systemswith multiple autonomousagent knowledge bases.Usinga classic approachto verification, this paperfocuseson tests conc...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
We demonstrate XRPC, a minimal XQuery extension that enables distributed querying between heterogeneous XQuery engines. The XRPC language extension enhances the existing concept o...
—With the advance of wireless communication technology, it is quite common for people to view maps or get related services from the handheld devices, such as mobile phones and PD...