Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...
A peer-to-peer (P2P) data management system consists essentially of a network of peer systems, each maintaining full autonomy over its own data resources. Data exchange between pe...
Most of the available knowledge management systems pay little attention to two important aspects: the need of supporting emerging communities of interest together with the officia...
Alessandra Agostini, Sara Albolino, Giorgio De Mic...
In this paper we present a robust software infrastructure for metacomputing. The system is intended to be used by others as a building block for large and powerful computational g...
In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the lim...
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adri...