Cooperative computing is becoming inevitable with the emerging of service-oriented computing and GRID becoming a ubiquitous computing resource. It is widely recognized that agent t...
Biomedical scientists generate, access, validate and interpret multiple distributed and heterogeneous data sets. Semantic annotations for these data sets are paramount for exchang...
Despite many competitors, Ethernet became the dominant protocol for local area networking due to its simplicity, robustness, and efficiency in wide variety of conditions and tech...
In many distributed computing paradigms, especially sensor networks and ubiquitous computing but also grid computing and web services, programmers commonly tie their application to...
Jonathan J. Davies, Alastair R. Beresford, Alan My...
An eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based data model for the Global Geodynamics Project (GGP) has been previously developed. Mindful of the need to incorporate metadata into the d...