Pervasive games provide a new type of game combining new technologies with the real environment of the players. While this already poses new challenges to the game developer, requ...
Wolfgang Broll, Jan Ohlenburg, Irma Lindt, Iris He...
Abstract. We present INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for knowledge acquisition from autonomous, distributed, semantically heterogen...
Doina Caragea, Jyotishman Pathak, Jie Bao, Adrian ...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
— Information Systems are subject to a perpetual evolution, which is particularly pressing in Web Information Systems, due to their distributed and often collaborative nature. Su...
Carlo Curino, Hyun J. Moon, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...