The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
Healthcare organizations practicing evidence-based medicine strive to unite their data resources in order to achieve a wider knowledge base for sophisticated research and matured d...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
— The usual scenario of service oriented systems is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, by new services that are continuosly deployed and by othe...
Although technology for communication has evolved tremendously over the past decades, mobility impaired individuals still face many difficulties interacting with communication serv...
Carlos Galinho Pires, Fernando Miguel Pinto, Eduar...