Background: In systems biology, and many other areas of research, there is a need for the interoperability of tools and data sources that were not originally designed to be integr...
John Boyle, Christopher C. Cavnor, Sarah A. Killco...
1 Distributed and collaborative applications are rapidly converging towards the adoption of a computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures, according to which an appl...
We consider the problem of interconnecting a simple type of social network: Instant Messaging services. Today, users are members of various IM communities such as AOL, Yahoo, and ...
Rising interest in the applications of wireless sensor networks has spurred research in the development of computing systems for lowthroughput, energy-constrained applications. Un...
Wireless sensor network applications, similarly to other distributed systems, often require a scalable time synchronization service enabling data consistency and coordination. Thi...