Workflows are activities involving the coordinated execution of multiple tasks performed by different processing entities, mostly in distributed heterogeneous environments which a...
Esin Gokkoca, Mehmet Altinel, Ibrahim Cingil, Nesi...
W e discuss the modification of queries against an integrated view in a federation of object-oriented databases. W epresent a generalisation of existing algorithms for simple glob...
This paper describes how query formulation can be made simple and less complicated by using ontologies. It takes a brief look at several advantages of using ontologies in a distri...
Distributed multiuser hypermedia environments provide not only information sharing mechanisms but also user collaboration/ communication facilities. The provision of integrated vi...
Coordination and collaboration are naturally used by groups for carrying out activities and solving problems that require cooperation. However, getting a set of computer agents to...
Mikael Berndtsson, Sharma Chakravarthy, Brian Ling...
If the number of users within a workjlow management system (WFMS) increases, a central workflow server (WFserver) and a single local area network (LAN) may become overloaded. The ...
To simplify the task of obtaining information from the vast number of information sources that are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), we are building tools to build informatio...