Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
Data mining techniques frequently find a large number of patterns or rules, which make it very difficult for a human analyst to interpret the results and to find the truly interes...
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Weimin Xia...
Users of mobile tour guides often express a strong desire for the system to be able to provide information on arbitrary objects they encounter during their visit – akin to point...
Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Alan J. Dix, Andre H...
An increasing amount of heterogeneous information about scientific research is becoming available on-line. This potentially allows users to explore the information from multiple p...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...