Abstract— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...
In this paper, we look at the Multi-Agent Meeting Scheduling problem where distributed agents negotiate meeting times on behalf of their users. While many negotiation approaches ha...
In the last few years, the data mining community has proposed a number of objective rule interestingness measures to select the most interesting rules, out of a large set of discov...
Deborah R. Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas, Nelson F....
Although much progress has been made, current lowlevel based visual information retrieval technology does not allow users to formulate queries through high-level semantics. More a...
If you have ever watched movies or television shows, you know how easy it is to tell the good characters from the bad ones. Little, however, is known “whether” or “how” com...