The design of large-scale, distributed, performance-sensitive systems presents numerous challenges due to their networkcentric nature and stringent quality of service (QoS) requir...
In multi-relational databases, a view, which is a context- and content-dependent subset of one or more tables (or other views), is often used to preserve privacy by hiding sensiti...
There have been significant efforts in providing semantic descriptions for Web services, including the approach as exemplified by OWLS. Part of the semantic description in OWL-S is...
An increasing number of mission-critical, embedded, telecommunications, and financial distributed systems are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such a...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...
Researchers have explored the design of ambient information systems across a wide range of physical and screen-based media. This work has yielded rich examples of design approache...