This paper presents research on the application of the means-end chain (MEC) framework for investigating customers cognitive structure regarding community applications. It is argu...
Emerging non-standard applications like the production of high-quality spatial sound pose new challenges to data management. Beside the need for a flexible transactional managemen...
This work proposes a XML-based framework for distributing and enforcing RSVP access control policies, for RSVP-aware application servers. Policies are represented by extending XAC...
Messaging plays a central role in the development of distributed object-oriented systems. It is supported by the specification of the Java Message Service (JMS) and CORBA’s Noti...
Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...