Role-limiting approaches using explicit theories of problem-solving have been successful for acquiring knowledge from domain experts1 . However most systems using this approach do...
Unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) system is the prevalent model in today's P2P system. In such systems, a response is sent along the same path that carried the incoming query m...
Abstract— Reconfigurable computing architectures aim to dynamically adapt their hardware to the application at hand. As research shows, the time it takes to reconfigure the har...
This paper explores the model of providing a common overlay structure management layer to assist the construction of large-scale wide-area Internet services. To this end, we propo...
Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collab...