This paper describes the foundations of a market mechanism that was designed to stimulate more efficient provisions of forest ecosystem services to society. The proposed tool is a ...
DescribeX is a visual, interactive tool for exploring the underlying structure of an XML collection. DescribeX implements a framework for creating XML summaries described using axi...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Shahan Khatchad...
The interesting properties of P2P systems (high availability despite peer volatility, support for heterogeneous architectures, high scalability, etc.) make them attractive for dist...
In this short paper we examine the integration of three emerging trends in Information Technology (Utility Computing, Grid Computing, and Web Services) into a new Computing paradig...
Stefan Wesner, Bassem Serhan, Theodosis Dimitrakos...
Service portals are systems which expose a bundle of web services to the user, allowing the specification and subsequent execution of complex tasks defined over these individual...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Anindya Datta, Kaushik Dutta,...