One of the typical features of distributed systems is the heterogeneity of its components (e.g. geographical spreading and different platform architectures), leading to interopera...
Tom Verdickt, Bart Dhoedt, Frank Gielen, Piet Deme...
Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, we present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous comput...
Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriell...
Ontology mapping is a complex and necessary task for many Semantic Web (SW) applications. The perspective users are faced with a number of challenges including the difficulties o...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul H. Lewis, Nige...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
This demo presents an extension of a declarative language for specifying data-intensive Web applications. We demonstrate a scenario extracted from a real-life application, the Web...
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Sara Comai, Marco D...