Web services are expected to be the key technology in enabling the next installment of the Web in the form of the Service Web. In this paradigm shift, Web services would be treated...
Data management functionality is not only needed in large-scale server systems, but also in embedded systems. Resource restrictions and heterogeneity of hardware, however, complic...
In 1996 Ward et al reported the results of their UK study into the state of practice in evaluating and realizing benefits from IS/IT investments. This paper presents new empirical...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
Distributed management of data is one of the most important problems facing grids. Within the Enabling Grids for Enabling eScience (EGEE) project, currently the world’s largest ...
Graeme A. Stewart, David G. Cameron, Greig A. Cowa...