Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
A collaborative filtering system at an e-commerce site or similar service uses data about aggregate user behavior to make recommendations tailored to specific user interests. We d...
This paper explores the possibility of extending the functional genre analysis model to account for the genre characteristics of non-linear, multi-modal, webmediated documents. Th...
In the knowledge economy, a firm's intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Intellectual capital manifests itself, predominantly,...
Since the deployment of real-time sensitive applications in the Internet, the research community has been struggling to leverage the IP best-effort networks for providing QoS assu...
Reinaldo de Barros Correia, Luiz F. Rust da Costa ...