Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...
: Privacy is one of the most important properties of an information system must satisfy, in which systems the need to share information among different, not trusted entities, the p...
XML, as "the next generation ASCII", can play several roles in a distributed object system; one of the more exciting ones is as the basis for serialized data representat...
User interfaces and information systems have become increasingly social in recent years, aimed at supporting the decentralized, cooperative production and use of content. A theory...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...