Distributed groupware systems consist of a group of users manipulating a shared object (like a text document, a filesystem, etc). Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms are app...
Service-based systems engineering is a recent paradigm that has proven useful for the development of multifunctional systems, whose functions may be used in different contexts and...
Constraint diagrams are a diagrammatic notation which may be used to express logical constraints. They were designed to complement the Unified Modeling Language in the development ...
Abstract. While XQuery is becoming a standard, the W3C is currently discussing the features of an update language for XML, and its requirements. Therefore, time is ripe for designi...
The growing number of mobile computing devices with diverse characteristics creates a requirement for seamless (device independent) access to computing resources of distributed sy...