Service-oriented computing, which offers more flexible means for application development, is gaining popularity. Service-oriented grid applications are constructed by selecting and...
Gang Li, Jianwu Wang, Jing Wang 0002, Yanbo Han, Z...
We concentrate on the property that the progression of collaborative work involves communication among participants, and we consider a flexible method for managing transactions ut...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...
The software underpinning today’s IT systems needs to adapt dynamically and predictably to rapid changes in system workload, environment and objectives. We describe a software f...
Sensing context information and making it available to the people, involved in coordinating a collaborative task, is a preliminary phase in making a system adaptable to the prevai...