In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) present important limitations that constrain their usage in current organisations. The fundamental reason is the lack of integration in the c...
Consider a multithreaded parallel application running inside a multicore virtual machine context that is itself hosted on a multi-socket multicore physical machine. How should the...
In the era of Ubiquitous Computing and world–wide data transfer mobility, as an innovative aspect of professional activities, imposes new and complex problems of mobile and dist...
A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...