Interoperability in service oriented environments is heavily inuenced by the view that the cooperating services have on their data. e term service for the abstract contract concl...
XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...
Adaptive web sites are sites that automatically improve their internal organization and/or presentation by observing userbrowsing behavior. In this paper we argue that adaptive be...
Abstract. Endpoint admission control is a mechanism for achieving scalable services by pushing quality-of-service functionality to end hosts. In particular, hosts probe the network...
Speculation is an every day phenomenon whereby one acts in anticipation of particular conditions that are likely to hold in the future. Computer science research has seen many suc...