A proxy object is a surrogate or placeholder that controls access to another target object. Proxies can be used to support distributed programming, lazy or parallel evaluation, ac...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jaime Spacco, Michael W. Hick...
Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is critical to the success of a business. Recent work in CRM has focused on the mining of customer-related data and the construction of cust...
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Wesley C. W. Chan, Gary K. W. ...
—Traditional hierarchical namespaces are not sufficient for representing and managing the rich semantics of today’s storage systems. In this paper, we discuss the principles o...
Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang, Chris...
Interactive video technology is meant to support user-interaction with video in scene objects associated with navigation in video segments and access to text-based metadata. Inter...
Rudinei Goularte, Edson dos Santos Moreira, Maria ...