This paper reports a longitudinal study of the design and implementation of a Web-based groupware application. We studied the development of three versions of the application, and...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will form the basis of future information systems. Web services are a promising way to implement SOA enabling the loose coupling of functionalit...
Christian Emig, Frank Brandt, Sebastian Kreuzer, S...
Background Providers have been reluctant to disclose patient data for public-health purposes. Even if patient privacy is ensured, the desire to protect provider confidentiality h...
Khaled El Emam, Jun Hu, Jay Mercer, Liam Peyton, M...
In this paper, the development of a three-dimensional (3-D) odometry system for wheeled robots on loose soil in an application of planetary exploration is described. When a wheele...
In asynchronous event systems, the production of an event is decoupled from its consumption via an event queue. The loose coupling of such systems allows great flexibility as to ...