The RM-ODP standard still provides the only comprehensive and coherent framework of concepts for the specification of complex large scale IT systems, and has taken on a new signif...
We present an architectural framework for specifying and processing co-reservations in Grid environments. Compared to other approaches, our co-reservation framework is more genera...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
This paper presents a content-dependent and configurable framework for the network processing of documents. Like existing compound document frameworks, it enables an enriched docu...
In video-on-demand (VOD) applications, it is desirable to provide the user with the video-cassette-recorder-like (VCR) capabilities such as fast-forwarding a video or jumping to a...