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The Mobile Internet scenario encourages the design and development of context-aware applications that provide results depending on context information, such as the relative positi...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
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Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related web services, are created from collections of components to form workflows. In many case...