Niche construction is the process whereby organisms, through their metabolism, activities, and choices, modify their own and/or each other’s niches. Our purpose is to clarify the...
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...
Abstract— There is widespread agreement that a higher level programming model for sensor networks is needed. A variety of models have been developed, but the community is far fro...
Today’s Multi-player Online Games (MOGs) are challenged by infrastructure requirements, because of their server-centric nature. Peer-to-peer networks are an interesting alternat...
Abstract. The proliferation of interconnected computing devices is fostering the emergence of environments where Web services made available to mobile users are a commodity. Unfort...
Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar,...