This paper describes the design and implementation of the eduSource Communication Layer (ECL) protocol. ECL is one outcome of a pan-Canadian project called eduSource Canada to bui...
Complex Semantic Web (SW) services may have intricate data state, autonomous process behavior and concurrent interactions. The design of such SW service systems requires precise a...
Personalized support for learners becomes even more important, when e-Learning takes place in open and dynamic learning and information networks. This paper shows how to realize p...
Peter Dolog, Nicola Henze, Wolfgang Nejdl, Michael...
Flash, as a multimedia format, becomes more and more popular on the Web. However, previous works on Flash are totally based on low-level features, which make it unpractical to bui...
Dawei Ding, Jun Yang 0003, Liping Wang, Qing Li, W...
This paper presents an algorithm to bound the bandwidth of a Web crawler. The crawler collects statistics on the transfer rate of each server to predict the expected bandwidth use...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Maggini, Filippo Mar...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks use the fundamental assumption that the nodes in the network will cooperate and will not cheat. In the absence of any common goals shared by the nodes ...
In this paper, we present automated techniques for bootstrapping and populating specialized domain ontologies by organizing and mining a set of relevant overlapping Web sites prov...
Hasan Davulcu, Srinivas Vadrevu, Saravanakumar Nag...
A requirements analysis in the emerging field of Semantic Web Services (SWS) (see http://daml.org/services/swsl/requirements/) has identified four major areas of research: intelli...
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gatew...
Content delivery networks have evolved beyond traditional distributed caching. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing it is now possible to deploy and run enterprise bu...