In this paper, we address an issue of design in online rating systems: how many items should be elicited from the ratings provider. Recommender and reputation systems have traditi...
The simplicity of the basic client/server model of Web services led quickly to its widespread adoption, but also to scalability and performance problems. The technological respons...
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Leif Abrahamsson, Christo...
Composition of temporal and spatial properties of real world objects in a unified data framework results into Moving Object Databases (MOD). MODs are able to process, manage and a...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
Software development environments are examples of complex computer applications characterized by heterogeneity; they are composed of diverse information repositories, user interfa...