This paper addresses design exploration for protocols that are employed in systems with availability-consistency tradeoffs. Distributed data is modelled as states of objects repl...
—In this paper we present the European project named E-Support, aimed to the maintenance companies which work on the field, away from the central headquarters. The main goal of E...
XML is becoming the universal format for data exchange between applications. Recently, the emergence of Web services as standard means of publishing and accessing data on the Web ...
Social networking services well know that some users are unwilling to freely share the information they store with the service (e.g. profile information). To address this, servic...
In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is d...