A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B c...
Too narrow, the productivity-oriented vision guiding ubiquitous computing should be replaced or enriched with humanistic aspects. We discuss the role of Maslow's hierarchy of...
This paper presents the development of a set of ontologies for use in messaging systems within military and emergency first responder command and control applications. These ontolo...
Duc N. Nguyen, Joseph B. Kopena, Boon Thau Loo, Wi...
: This paper introduces the concept of Ontology based Geo-Object Catalog (OGOC). An OGOC acts as a focal point for a federation of independent geoobject sources, providing consolid...
Daniela F. Brauner, Marco A. Casanova, Carlos Jos&...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...