SQL extensions that allow queries to explicitly specify data quality requirements in terms of currency and consistency were proposed in an earlier paper. This paper develops a dat...
The advent of the mobile Web and the increasing demand for personalized contents arise the need for computationally expensive services, such as dynamic generation and on-thefly a...
There are many applications for computer vision where a scene observed contains a wide range of brightness. Often, the low dynamic range of a camera limits the accuracy of informa...
Autonomic Management capabilities become increasingly important for attaining functional and quality goals in software systems. Nonetheless, successful Autonomic Management soluti...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...