: Metadata research has emerged as a new discipline in the last years, and is focused on the provision of semantic descriptions of a diverse kind to digital resources, web resource...
In this paper, we introduce and describe directed dependency graph-based transaction and concurrency control (DCC) for persistent (stable, single-level) object-based bulk data man...
Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...
This paper presents an experience of educational podcasting set up at the University of Bergamo (Italy), and derives from that experience some remarks upon the quality of podcastin...
A call admission control scheme named thinning scheme, which smoothly throttles the admission rates of calls according to their priorities and aims to provide multiple prioritized ...