— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Abstract. Context-aware systems represent extremely complex and heterogeneous distributed systems, composed of sensors, actuators, application components, and a variety of context ...
One of the main factors driving object-oriented software development for information systems is the requirement for systems to be tolerant to change. To address this issue in desig...
Florida Estrella, Zsolt Kovacs, Jean-Marie Le Goff...
Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms, used to build webbased recommender systems, are often evaluated in terms of how accurately they predict user ratings. However, current eva...
Neal Lathia, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra, Xavier A...
Information-rich environments are the open environments that characterize most of the modern applications of computing technology. The applications include ubiquitous information a...