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CAISE
2006
Springer
14 years 15 hour ago
A Non-Linear Cost Model for Multi-Node OLAP Systems
Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...
Jorge Loureiro, Orlando Belo
EUROSSC
2006
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Discovery and Composition of Services for Context-Aware Systems
We consider the challenge of dynamically adapting services to context changes that occur in ubiquitous computing environments (e.g., changes in a user's activity) and propose ...
Cristian Hesselman, Andrew Tokmakoff, Pravin Pawar...
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Application of Hazard Analysis to Software Quality Modelling
Quality is a fundamental concept in software and information system development. It is also a complex and elusive concept. A large number of quality models have been developed for...
Hong Zhu, Yanlong Zhang, Qingning Huo, Sue Greenwo...
KSEM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Autonomy: Life and Being
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Mary-Anne Williams
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Emergence of Spontaneous Order Through Neighborhood Formation in Peer-to-Peer Recommender Systems
The advent of the Semantic Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the exi...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Cai-Nico...