It is common to use domain specific terminology – attributes – to describe the visual appearance of objects. In order to scale the use of these describable visual attributes t...
The per-method access control lists of standard middleware technologies allow only simple forms of access control to be expressed and enforced. Research systems based on capabilit...
This paper proposes a new type of Information/Communication system or Inquiry System to support the investigation by large groups (e.g. thousands of people) of complex topics abou...
Distributed work teams are increasingly being implemented to enhance organizational flexibility and competitiveness in today's complex and rapidly changing work environment. ...
This paper addresses the fundamental tradeoffs in event systems between scalability (of event filtering, routing, and delivery mechanisms), expressiveness (when describing intere...
Patrick Th. Eugster, Pascal Felber, Rachid Guerrao...