Electronic markets, distributed peer-to-peer applications and other forms of online collaboration are all based on mutual trust, which enables transacting peers to overcome the un...
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
The workflow models have been essentially operation-centric for many years, ignoring almost completely the data aspects. Recently, a new paradigm of data-centric workflows, call...
Bogdan Marinoiu, Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Bourhis, ...
The richness of today’s electronic communications mirrors physical world: activities such as shopping, business and scientific collaboration are conducted online. Current intera...
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...