Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
Control decisions of intelligent devices in critical infrastructure can have a significant impact on human life and the environment. Insuring that the appropriate data is availabl...
Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases particularly in the context of distribute...
The construction of personalised information systems is becoming more important as the quantity of information to be searched increases. The approach taken in this paper involves ...
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...