Though the service of shared virtual worlds is an active area of research, little effort has been made to optimize such systems for urban world spaces. Tracking the motion, action...
In a multidatabase environment with mobile computers involved, the nature of computing is such that the user may not wait for the submitted global transaction to complete before d...
The emergent nature of structure is a crucial, but often ignored, constraint on authoring hypertexts. VIKI is a spatial hypertext system that supports the emergent s of structure ...
Catherine C. Marshall, Frank M. Shipman III, James...
This paper presents the formal syntax and the operational semantics of Taverna, a workflow management system with a large user base among the e-Science community. Such formal foun...
Daniele Turi, Paolo Missier, Carole A. Goble, Davi...
Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for managing autonomous databases. In order to improve the performance of read-only queries, we strive to exploit user requirement...