provides a powerful abstraction basically allowing to perceiving all compute resources as entities that can be dynamically discovered and composed. These entities are called servic...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) started fifteen years ago with the remark that modularization of so-called crosscutting functionalities is a fundamental problem for the enginee...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
Ever shrinking device sizes and innovative micro-architectural and circuit design techniques have made it possible to have multi-million transistor systems running at multi-gigahe...
Although the research domain on social capital and the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is relatively immature, there is a fast growing body of eviden...