Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...
Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life bec...
Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Ma...
Abstract: Although immense efforts have been invested in the construction of hundreds of learning object repositories, the degree of reuse of learning resources maintained in such ...
— In the last years peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications are emerging as potentially important structures for information, content management and distribution. The most popular P2P ap...
Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra, ...
The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...