In this paper we investigate which characteristics reliable multicast services should have in order to be appropriate for use by distributed interactive media applications such as...
Abstract. Publish/subscribe-based messaging systems are used increasingly often as a communication mechanism in data-oriented web applications. Such applications often pose serious...
Kai Sachs, Stefan Appel, Samuel Kounev, Alejandro ...
While many theoretical arguments against or in favor of open source and closed source software development have been presented, the empirical basis for the assessment of arguments...
Discovery of suitable web services is a crucial task in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). In this work, we develop a novel approach to the discovery of geoprocessing services (WP...
The World Wide Web is a collection of databases as well as web sites. Databases associated with web sites provide public access via query forms on web pages. They constitute an en...