In Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, the preferences of the decision maker regarding each criterion are classically modelled by a utility function depending on one single varia...
— This paper address user personalization of services. The purpose is to propose an architecture of components that maintain the user profiles consistent in face of user and admi...
There are several situations where applications in the cloud need to self-manage their quality attributes (QA). We posit that selfadaptation can be achieved through a market-based ...
— Routing protocols often keep track of multiple route metrics, where some metrics are more important than others. Route selection is then based on lexicographic comparison: the ...
: In a database with categorical attributes, each attribute defines a partition whose classes can be regarded as natural clusters of rows. In this paper we focus on finding a parti...