Abstract Loosely coupled services are gaining importance in many business domains. However, compared to OO-RPC middleware approaches, emerging technologies proposed to implement lo...
Assuming a rational perspective, the adoption and development of a new organisational technology can be viewed as a way to achieve an higher level of efficiency by finding the bes...
Flavia Blumetti, Paolo Ferri, Cristiano Ghiringhel...
Without the proliferation of formal semantic annotations, the Semantic Web is certainly doomed to failure. In earlier work we presented a new paradigm to avoid this: the 'Sel...
We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine cha...
Mobile technologies are gaining more popularity and diffusing into every aspect of our lives. Value Added Services (VAS) have a huge impact on consumers’ usage patterns. They ar...