In today's distributed computing environments, users are makingincreasing demands on the systems, networks, and applications they use. Users are coming to expect performance,...
Michael Katchabaw, Stephen L. Howard, Andrew D. Ma...
User-centered consultation systems can be viewed as systems with trust in the competence of the user, whereas conventional knowledge systems are often based on some mistrust. By o...
Georg Buscher, Joachim Baumeister, Frank Puppe, Di...
Proliferation and innovation of wireless technologies require significant amounts of radio spectrum. Recent policy reforms by the FCC are paving the way by freeing up spectrum fo...
Lei Yang, Zengbin Zhang, Wei Hou, Ben Y. Zhao, Hai...
This paper describes our research effort to employ Grid technologies to enable the development of geoscience applications by integrating workflow technologies with data mining r...
Gianluigi Folino, Agostino Forestiero, Giuseppe Pa...
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...