Delegation is a mechanism that allows a user A to act on another user B's behalf by making B's access rights available to A. It is well recognized as an important mechani...
Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...
The Digital Video Album (DVA) system described here integrates various cooperating subsystems to index and query video documents according to their semantic content and other meta...
Qiuying Zhang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Philippe Mulh...
— Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with specific management interfaces. Moreover, t...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Estella Annoni, Be...
The growing number of mobile computing devices with diverse characteristics creates a requirement for seamless (device independent) access to computing resources of distributed sy...