This paper addresses the content overload problem applied to photo retrieval activities in the home environment. The starting point is an analysis of the main activities that users...
Dario Teixeira, Wim F. J. Verhaegh, Miguel Ferreir...
The semantic web promises to bring automation to the areas of web service discovery, composition and invocation. In order to realize these benefits, rich semantic descriptions of...
Evaluation of non-functional properties of a design (such as performance, dependability, security, etc.) can be enabled by design annotations specific to the property to be evalua...
C. Murray Woodside, Dorina C. Petriu, Dorin Bogdan...
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...
Abstract. We present an approach for enhancing dependability of component-based software. Functionality related to security, safety and reliability is encapsulated in specific com...