Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...
Abstract. We describe an architecture for building speech-enabled conversational agents, deployed as self-contained Web services, with ability to provide inference processing on ve...
Context-aware systems allow users to access services and multimedia data according to their current context (location, identity, preferences). Web 2.0 fosters user contribution and...
The standard CORBA operation invocation model supports synchronous, one-way, and deferred synchronous interactions between clients and servers. However, this model is too restrict...
The rapid spreading of mobile computerized devices marks the beginning of a new computing paradigm characterized by ad hoc networking and spontaneous interaction, taking place tra...
Reto Hermann, Dirk Husemann, Michael Moser, Michae...