In the Biodiversity World (BDW) project we have created a flexible and extensible Web Services-based Grid environment for biodiversity researchers to solve problems in biodiversity...
Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, Peter Brewer, Tim Sutton, Ch...
With the advent of the Web and the efforts towards a Semantic Web the nature of knowledge engineering has changed drastically. In this position paper we propose four principles fo...
ResearchinHumanitiesandSocialSciencesistraditionallybasedonprintedpublicationssuchasmanuscripts, personal correspondence, first editions and other types of documents which are oft...
Michele Nucci, Michele Barbera, Christian Morbidon...
Being subscribed to a newspaper, readers expect some basic things: receiving their paper in their mailbox early in the morning, being able to read it privately when and where they...
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...