The rapidly expanding elderly population in Japan and other industrialized countries has posed an enormous challenge to the systems of healthcare that serve elderly citizens. This ...
—Grid computing is becoming more and more attractive for coordinating large-scale heterogeneous resource sharing and problem solving. Of particular interest for effective Grid co...
Several scalable media codecs have been standardized in recent years to cope with heterogeneous usage conditions and to aim at always providing audio, video and image content in t...
E-commerce as well as B2B applications are essentially based on interactions between different people and organizations (e.g. industry, banks, customers) that usually exploit the ...
Mario Bravetti, Claudio Guidi, Roberto Lucchi, Gia...
An emergent class of web applications blurs the boundary between single user application and online public space. Recently popular web applications like del.icio.us help manage in...