The success of Skype has inspired a generation of peer-topeer-based solutions for satisfactory real-time multimedia services over the Internet. However, fundamental questions, suc...
This paper considers the elements and challenges of heterogeneous data management and interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing from the literatures on participatory design, comput...
Karen S. Baker, Steven J. Jackson, Jerome R. Wanet...
Abstract— The current best-effort Internet cannot readily provide the service guarantees that VoIP applications often require. Path switching can potentially address this problem...
Shu Tao, Kuai Xu, Antonio Estepa, Teng Fei, Lixin ...
: User-defined data types such as intervals require specialized access methods to be efficiently searched and queried. As database implementors cannot provide appropriate index str...
Christoph Brochhaus, Jost Enderle, Achim Schlosser...
This paper reviews the main innovations of XML and considers their impact on the editing techniques for structured documents. Namespaces open the way to compound documents; well-f...