The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery...
Much of the support for communication across distributed communities has focused on meetings and intentional contact. However, most interactions within co-located groups occur whe...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
Human Probes, which are human integrated or embedded with sensors, allow the acquisition of a variety of contextual information, facilitate collaborative information sharing and co...
A corporate portal supports a community of users on cohesively managing a shared set of resources. Such management should also include social tagging, i.e. the practice of collabor...