Document retrieval and web search engines index large quantities of text. The static costs associated with storing the index can be traded against dynamic costs associated with us...
Product Distribution (PD) theory was recently developed as a framework for analyzing and optimizing distributed systems. In this paper we demonstrate its use for adaptive distribu...
In this paper, we illustrate a preliminary approach to the translation of Web data between heterogeneous formats. This work fits into a larger project whose aim is the development...
Agents operating in the real world have to deal with a constantly changing and only partially predictable environment and are nevertheless expected to choose reasonable actions qui...
: Frameworks for composing Web Services offer a promising approach for realizing enterprise-wide and cross-organizational business applications. With BPEL4WS a powerful composition...