Recent trends in Internet computing have led to the popularization of many forms of virtual organizations. Examples include supply chain management, grid computing, and collaborat...
The event-condition-action paradigm (also known as triggers or rules) gives a database “active” capabilities – the ability to react automatically to changes in the database o...
Farsite is a secure, scalable file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but is physically distributed among a set of untrusted computers. Farsite provides ...
Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Miguel Castro, Gera...
A coalition is a collaborative pattern in which people must work together to accomplish a task, but where organizational constraints stand in the way of their making use of the co...
— This paper describes a sensor for autonomous surveillance capable of continuously monitoring the environment, while acquiring detailed images of specific areas. This is achiev...
Stefano Ghidoni, Alberto Pretto, Emanuele Menegatt...