Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...
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...
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...
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...
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...