As context-aware systems become more widespread and mobile there is an increasing need for a common distributed event platform for gathering context information and delivering to ...
The inter-operability of multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources is an important issue in many applications such as mediation systems, datawarehouses, or web-based syst...
To carry ecologically-relevant biodiversity research, one must collect chunks of information on species and their habitats from a large number of institutions and correlate them us...
: We introduce infrastructure monitoring as an application domain that demands decentralized system designs. This is motivated by the large scale of these systems, the heterogeneit...
Providing an integrated access to multiple heterogeneous sources is a challenging issue in global information systems for cooperation and interoperability. In the past, companies h...