Internet pervasive services call for flexible supports to enable a wide degree of collaboration. On the one hand, many people are connected to the Internet and surf the Web not on...
When admitting electronic media as a means for citizens to approach public authorities – i.e., when advancing official proceedings towards e-Government – security is an indisp...
Web services are often employed to create wide distributed evolvable applications from existing components that constitute a service-based software system. ServiceOriented Archite...
Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of re...
The present emergence of loosely-coupled, inter-enterprise collaboration, i.e., virtual organizations calls for new kind of middleware: generic, common facilities for managing cont...