David Parnas wrote several papers in the 1970's and 1980's that are now considered classics. The concepts he advocated such as information hiding and bstract interfaces ...
The keeping of secrets and practicing of deception are commonplace in everyday social interaction. They also serve an important role in encouraging social cohesion. However, for H...
Adam N. Joinson, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Pamela Briggs
In a component oriented approach, components are designed, developed and validated in order to be widely used. However one cannot always foresee which specific uses will be made o...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
This paper considers the role of network connectivity in supporting context-sensitive applications. A range of context-sensitive applications are analysed with respect to connectiv...
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adri...