An important characteristic of ubiquitous computing is that the computational services in our environment are envisioned to be far more interconnectable than today. This means it ...
Efficient querying XML documents is an increasingly important issue considering the fact that XML becomes the de facto standard for data representation and exchange over the Web,...
Abstract. Augmenting web pages with semantic contents, i.e., building a ‘Semantic Web’, promises a number of benefits for web users in general and learners in particular. Seman...
Computer graphics forms an important part of a working scientist’s tools. This may be provided by resources with the scientist’s group or by capabilities of the toolkits that ...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...