People accessing documents via the Internet typically experience latencies in retrieving content. We discuss continual-computation policies that dictate strategies for prefetching...
Metadata is an important way of creating order in emerging distributed digital library collections. This paper presents an analysis of ethnographic data gathered in a university l...
The latest ITU-T standard syntax of Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) 16] o ers several operators to compose MSCs in a hierarchical, iterating, and nondeterministic way. However, curr...
Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...