This paper surveys and analyzes the state of the art of agent-mediated electronic commerce
(e-commerce), concentrating particularly on the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business …

Open Science is an umbrella term encompassing a multitude of assumptions about the
future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this chapter …

After a definition of e–science and the Grid, the paper begins with an overview of the
technological context of Grid developments. NASA's Information Power Grid is described as …

Surgida na literatura em 1974, a information literacy liga-se à necessidade de se exercer o
domínio sobre o sempre crescente universo informacional. Incorporando habilidades …

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular
Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected …

The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-
hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery …

The Grid is an integrated infrastructure for coordinated resource sharing and problem
solving in distributed environments. The effective and efficient use of stored data and its …

Just as the Internet is shifting its focus from information and communication to a knowledge
delivery infrastructure, we see the Grid moving from computation and data management to a …

" Creative Environments" is a follow-up on the book Creative Space in the same series and
by the same authors, serving this time as editors of a broader book on computational …

Large-scale, dynamic and open environments such as the Grid and Web Services build
upon existing computing infrastructures to supply dependable and consistent large-scale …