Improving the usability of government portal sites requires a focus shift from system to user in both research and design. Empirical studies into user behavior are needed to suppor...
Antiquity is a wide-area distributed storage system designed to provide a simple storage service for applications like file systems and back-up. The design assumes that all serve...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Patrick R. Eaton, Byung-Gon Ch...
In today's world there is a need for knowledge infrastructures that can support several autonomous knowledge bases all using different ontologies and constantly adapting thes...
Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...
VRML97 allows the description of dynamic worlds that can change with both the passage of time, and user interaction. Unfortunately, the current VRML usage model prevents its full ...