Management of large data repositories integrated into the Grid poses new challenges for Grid research. There already exist several successful Data Grid projects addressing process...
Bernhard Fiser, Umut Onan, Ibrahim Elsayed, Peter ...
This paper reflects different understanding and positions on future trends of GRID-oriented technologies, applications, and networks, as perceived by representatives from industry...
Petre Dini, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Mark Potts, Alexand...
This paper describes two self-optimisation techniques that have been employed in the design of two exemplar agent-based mobile computing systems, namely Gullivers Genie and the Ag...
Rem W. Collier, Michael J. O'Grady, Gregory M. P. ...
The aim of DICE is the improvement of communication between culture-providers (institutions, museums, etc.) and different categories of users (scholars, publishers, culturaltouris...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications have recently seen an enormous success and have reached millions of users. The main reason of this success is the anonymity the users enjoy. Howeve...
Shalendra Chhabra, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Cap...
A considerable amount of e-learning content is being delivered via virtual or managed learning environments. These platforms keep track of learners' activities including cont...
In this article, we present the GI-Cat web service: a SOAP-based service which provides the basic functionalities for GI dataset cataloguing and access. The introduced GI-Cat data...
Lorenzo Bigagli, Stefano Nativi, Paolo Mazzetti, G...
Nowadays, many different organizations which operate in the Web distributed environment become more and more dependent on services to automate their activities and to improve thei...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
In order to obtain a suitable model of the universe of discourse of some information systems, it is important to allow the description of imprecise objects with temporal indetermi...
Ed Porto Bezerra, Ulrich Schiel, Bernardo Lula Jr.