The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
The objective of the Semantic Web is to make the Web amenable to computer processing, and hence to improve the value that humans can obtain from it. One of the oft-touted user bene...
Les Carr, Timothy Miles-Board, Gary Wills, Arouna ...
The heterogeneous nature and independent administration of geographically dispersed resources in Grid, demand the need for access control using fine-grained policies. In this pape...
Elisa Bertino, Pietro Mazzoleni, Bruno Crispo, Swa...
Ontologies play a key role in agent communication and the emerging Semantic Web to define a vocabulary of concepts and their relationships. Different agents and web services may us...
Thanks to recent developments on automatic generation of metadata and interoperability between repositories, the production, management and consumption of learning object metadata ...