There is an increase in the number of data sources that can be queried across the WWW. Such sources typically support HTML forms-based interfaces and search engines query collecti...
With the emergence of fast and standardized communication infrastructures over which separately designed agents of different organizations can interact in real-time, there is an i...
This paper reports on a practical implementation of a context mediator for the fixed income securities industry. We describe industry circumstances and the data and calculation se...
Recent advances in wireless technologies have made the mobile computing a reality. In order to provide services of good quality to mobile users and improve the system performance,...
Jedi (Java based Extraction and Dissemination of Information) is a lightweight tool for the creation of wrappers and mediators to extract, combine, and reconcile information from ...
Gerald Huck, Peter Fankhauser, Karl Aberer, Erich ...
Parallel and distributed programming is conceptually harder to undertake and to understand than sequential programming, because a programmer often has to manage the coexistence an...
Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) often consist of applications that access shared resources such as databases. Since centralized systems may have a great impact on the system...