In this paper we adopt a component model based on object-oriented systems, introducing the concepts of components and their structure. A component consists of a dynamically changi...
This paper examines how different forms of linguistic similarity in a text-chat environment relate to the establishment of interpersonal trust. Sixty-two pairs played an iterative...
Lauren E. Scissors, Alastair J. Gill, Kathleen Ger...
In traditional information-flow type systems, the security policy is often formalized as noninterference properties. However, noninterference alone is too strong to express securi...
Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) allow organizations to streamline and automate business processes and reengineer their structure. One important requirement for this type of syst...
Query processing techniques for XML data have focused mainly on tree-pattern queries (TPQs). However, the need for querying XML data sources whose structure is very complex or not...