Semantic service discovery architectures that operate in mobile environments must cope with the significant challenges of finding relevant services rapidly, while facing constrain...
Abstract—Pervasive applications are characterized by variations in their context of execution. Their correct behavior requires continuous adaptations, accordingly to changes obse...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
This paper describes three new visual languages for use in the coordination of collaborative work in large CSCW environments. EVPL describes work plans and is used to define the c...