The need for an automatic inference process able to deal with information coming from unreliable sources is becoming a relevant issue both on corporate networks and on the open Web...
There has been an explosion of interest in Knowledge Management [KM] theory and practice. However, it is argued here that much of this work fails to consider the purpose for which...
The centralized system approach for computer and telecommunication network management has been presenting scalability problems along with the growth in the number and diversity of...
Existing approaches for the processing of location-dependent queries implicitly assume location data expressed at maximum precision (e.g., GPS). However, there exist applications w...
Applications from several domains are now being written to process live data originating from hardware and softwarebased streaming sources. Many of these applications have been wr...