Current e-service technology paradigms require the analysis and conceptual modeling of cooperative inter-organizational workflows. Cooperation among different organizations is base...
Abstract. The CORBA standard now incorporates support for reliability through two distinct mechanisms — replication (using the Fault Tolerant CORBA standard) and transactions (us...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are composed of a distributed collection of peers that cooperate in order to perform some common task. Though P2P applications have attrac...
Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, hosted applications and databases can be update-intensive and must rem...
Because the ultimate purpose of the Semantic Web is to help users locate, organize, and process information, we strongly believe that it should be grounded in the information acces...