Web Engineering is going through several major changes. New promising application fields related to the Web such as the Semantic Web and Web Services, and its combination, Semantic...
In this paper we present an IRTL (Information Resource Transaction Layer) middleware architecture that addresses some of the important technical challenges associated with heterog...
Junseok Hwang, Praveen Aravamudham, Elizabeth D. L...
Grid computing is concerned with the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in distributed "virtual organizations.” The dynamic and multi-institutional nature of ...
Von Welch, Frank Siebenlist, Ian T. Foster, John B...
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...