Abstract--Many efforts are centered around creating largescale networks of "smart things" found in the physical world (e.g., wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedd...
A mashup is a Web application that integrates data, computation and GUI provided by several systems into a unique tool. The concept originated from the understanding that the numbe...
The interconnect mechanisms (shared bus or crossbar) used in current chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to become a bottleneck that prevents these architectures from scaling...
Organizations invest in the development of knowledge repositories (KR) to foster knowledge reuse and integration. Yet many KR initiatives fail to meet expectations, in part becaus...
How to achieve knowledge creation effectively remains a problem, this becomes even more difficult in a loosely knitted community such as networks of practice. This is because know...