Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
Abstract. The advent of context-aware computing requires a new paradigm in information management. Context information in a computing environment will take the form of disparate an...
In many different application areas, e.g. space observation systems or engineering systems of world-wide operating companies, there is a need for an efficient distributed intersect...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Abstract— We consider a convex unconstrained optimization problem that arises in a network of agents whose goal is to cooperatively optimize the sum of the individual agent objec...
Angelia Nedic, Alexander Olshevsky, Asuman E. Ozda...
Collaborative interpretation occurs when a group interprets and transforms a diverse set of information fragments into a coherent set of meaningful descriptions. This activity is ...