Client-server applications often do not scale well when a large number of clients access a single server. To solve this, a new trend is to allow a client to download data from oth...
Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information. These stan...
In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is d...
One of the biggest unaddressed challenges for the digital economy is what to do when electronic transactions go wrong. Consumers are frustrated by interminable phone menus, and lo...
While networking technology facilitates the use of online services such as real-time instant messaging and anywhere-anytime multiplayer gaming, societal and ethical issues can inf...