Metacomputing allows the exploitation of geographically seperate, heterogenous networks and resources. Most metacomputers are feature rich and carry a long, complicated installati...
Abstract. The widespread deployment of inexpensive communications technology, computational resources in the networking infrastructure, and network-enabled end devices poses an int...
Todd D. Hodes, Steven E. Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, ...
Abstract. Search engines are becoming such an easy way to find textual resources that we wish to use them also for multimedia content; however, syntactic techniques, even if promi...
Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza,...
The prevalent nature of Internet makes it a well suitable medium for many new types of services such as location-based services and streaming content. Subscribers to such services ...
— There is a growing trend towards convergence of telecommunication and data networks in order to support a richer set of services and applications. At the same time, increasing ...