In the online world every person has to hold a number of different data sets so as to be able to have access to various e-services and take part in specific economical and social ...
This paper discusses an alternative application area for ambient information systems, coined as ‘persuasive visualization’. It investigates the recent evolution of ambient dis...
Service orientation is a means for integrating across diverse systems. Each resource, whether an application, system, or trading partner, can be accessed as a service. The resultin...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Niels Lohmann, Peter Mass...
It is now possible to turn almost any object into an interface. What one must do, however is to explore the user’s needs and perceptions in order to create the metaphors necessa...
This paper investigates fault tolerance issues in Bistro, a wide area upload architecture. In Bistro, clients first upload their data to intermediaries, known as bistros. A destin...