Technology designers often strive to design systems that are flexible enough to be used in a wide range of situations. Software engineers, in particular, are trained to seek gener...
The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is socially constructed (Mackenzie and Wacjman, 1985; Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, 1987; Bijker and L...
The standard method for making the full content of audio and video material searchable and is to annotate it with humangenerated meta-data that describes the content in a way that...
Large object-oriented systems have, at least, four characteristics that complicate object communication, i.e the system is distributed and contains large numbers, e.g. thousands, ...
We demonstrate a framework for improving the availability of cluster based Internet services. Our approach models Internet services as a collection of interconnected components, e...