This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...
Video conferencing is still considered a poor alternative to face-to-face meetings. In the business setting, where these systems are most prevalent, the misuse of video conferenci...
Abstract. A mobile robot that interacts with its environment needs a machineunderstandable representation of objects and their usages. We present an ontology of objects, with gener...
Eric Wang, Yong Se Kim, Hak Soo Kim, Jin Hyun Son,...
Knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for organizations. Knowledge is a renewable, re-usable and accumulating asset of value to firms t...
In most object-oriented languages and systems, objects must belong to a single most specific class. Relaxing this requirement, also known as role modeling, has been proposed by sev...
Gerti Kappel, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwi...