Ten years ago, I introduced the notion of user interface plasticity to denote the capacity of user interfaces to adapt, or to be adapted, to the context of use while preserving us...
In this paper, we define and study a new class of capacity planning models called MAP queueing networks. MAP queueing networks provide the first analytical methodology to describe ...
The alignment of the software architecture and the functional requirements of a system is a demanding task because of the difficulty in tracing design elements to requirements. Th...
The Semantic Web promises automated invocation, discovery, and composition of Web services by enhancing services with semantic descriptions. An upper ontology for Web services cal...
Gerald C. Gannod, John T. E. Timm, Raynette J. Bro...
: Generic systems for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), such as QBIC [7] cannot be used to solve domain-specific image retrieval problems, as for example, the identification of...