With the need to make sense out of large and constantly growing information spaces, tools to support information management are becoming increasingly valuable. In prior work we pr...
The principles of sensor networks--low-power, wireless, in-situ sensing with many inexpensive sensors--are only recently penetrating into underwater research. Acoustic communicati...
In many data sharing settings, such as within the biological and biomedical communities, global data consistency is not always attainable: different sites' data may be dirty,...
Service composition concerns both integration of heterogeneous distributed applications and dynamic selection of services. QoS-aware selection enables a service requester with cer...
Davide Bacciu, Maria Grazia Buscemi, Lusine Mkrtch...
As mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs or mobile phones, are getting more and more ubiquitous and are able to communicate with each other via wireless technologies, the paradigm...