Effective caching in Domain Name System (DNS) is critical to its performance and scalability. Existing DNS only supports weak cache consistency by using the Time-To-Live (TTL) mec...
In this paper, we analyse web log data from user trials of the WHURLE-LS adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) system from a behavioural perspective. This system allows users to s...
Elizabeth J. Brown, Tim J. Brailsford, Tony Fisher...
—This paper proposes a set of conceptual metaphors for the design of multi-cultural systems. The work is part of a long-term study to adapt the International Children's Digi...
Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado, Clarisse Siecke...
This paper introduces a novel method for composing Web services in the presence of external volatile information. Our approach, which we call the informed-presumptive, is compared...
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...