EDI World Institute Research Agora

Agora: Grid Community in Vega Grid

In grid environment, how to organize, discover and use grid resources is one of the basic research problems. In this paper, we introduce a new concept called agora, which refers grid community in our Vega grid project. We propose a principle on agora as one of the basic design principles of Vega grid, which is the community principle. We give a detailed definition of the agora as a 4-tuple(S, O...

A Importância das Telecomunicações

A import&nda crescente dos gastos com telecomunicac6es, ao nivel do dispSndio global em Tecnologias de InformscAo, constitui, efectivamente uma tendSncia generalizada que tern sido possivel observer ao longo dos uItimos anos, resultmte das respostas a um questionario regular que tern sido realizado a um conjunto significativo de empresas portuguesas. A Price Waterhouse Lem vindo a realizar, des...

Agora: The Story of the Simplest MOP in the World-or- The Scheme of Object-Orientation

The EDI World Institute: An International Approach

4. International Trade Facilitation and Access through Electronic Data Interchange: The major project in this area is the “International Trade Facilitation and Access through Electronic Data Interchange” initiative which focuses on the position and role that EDI and related electronic commerce technologies play in streamlining the international trade transaction process. It will also identify t...

Speculation and Bluff for Linguistic Field Research - Social Software and Media for Data Gathering

Linguistic field research relies on gathering data on how people express themselves. Traditionally, this is done by sending scientists to interview speakers and to report on these interviews by filling forms. This is a very slow and excessively expensive process which, furthermore, is often biased. Indeed, researchers’ questions and reports are influenced by their –conscious as well as unconsci...