An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
In the context of natural multimodal dialogue systems, we address the challenging issue of the definition of cooperative answers in an appropriate multimodal form. Highlighting th...
Meriam Horchani, Benjamin Caron, Laurence Nigay, F...
This paper presents a conceptual framework for service modelling and refinement, called the COSMO (COnceptual Service MOdelling) framework. This framework provides concepts to mode...
Dick A. C. Quartel, Maarten W. A. Steen, Stanislav...
MapReduce and stream processing are two emerging, but different, paradigms for analyzing, processing and making sense of large volumes of modern day data. While MapReduce offers t...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...