DICE (DIstributed Constraint Environment) is a framework for the construction of distributed constraint solvers from software components in a number of predefined categories. The...
In recent years the MPEG-4 ISO compression standard has gained much attention. With its high compression ratio it promises to make broadbandstreaming more feasible. However, curre...
Semantic Web shows us the potential infrastructure of the next generation Web. Web information will be understandable to machines in this infrastructure. Our research work1 has th...
One of the most challenging objectives of mobile data management is the ubiquitous, any time, anywhere access. This objective is very difficult to meet due to several network and ...
This paper presents flexible protocols for dynamic database design and reconfiguration, enabling mobile database to be designed in such a way that data location, replication and e...
This paper outlines the methodology and results of the EBONI Project’s evaluation of portable electronic books, in which staff from UK academia were provided with a selection of...
A fundamental issue in the engineering of coordination models is n coordination abstractions that are correct with respect to the specification of the coordination model they imp...
Query-by-example is the most popular query model for today’s image retrieval systems. A typical query image contains not only relevant objects (e.g., Eiffel Tower), but also ir...