Sensor networks can be viewed as large distributed databases, and SQL-like high-level declarative languages can be used for data and information retrieval. Energy constraints make ...
: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to subm...
With the increasing use of the internet, many problemsolving tasks such as resource allocation, scheduling, planning, and configuration pose themselves in an open setting involvi...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...
This paper describes cell phone text messaging during the 2004 US Democratic and Republican National Conventions by protesters using TXTmob ? a text-message broadcast system devel...