The need for efficient decentralized recommender systems has been appreciated for some time, both for the intrinsic advantages of decentralization and the necessity of integrating...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Leroy, Afshin Moin, ...
—Recently, Semantic Web Services have been increasingly adopted to search, access and manipulate information made available from autonomous and heterogeneous systems interacting ...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
The Grid paradigm of accessing heterogeneous distributed resources proved to be extremely effective, as many organizations are relying on Grid middlewares for their computational ...
Paolo Andreetto, Sergio Andreozzi, Antonia Ghisell...
This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...
With the advent of XML as the de facto language for data publishing and exchange, scalable distribution of XML data to large, dynamic populations of consumers remains an important...