We consider a novel class of applications where a set of activities conducted by a group of people over a time period needs to be planned, taking into account each member's p...
Storing data according to the multidimensional model, in particular following star schemas, has demonstrated to be one of the most adequate forms to ease the exploration of data. ...
Context-awareness has been considered as promising topic in pervasive computing area, but a review of the existing approaches shown that developing diverse application services in...
A design rationale (DR) is a representation of the reasoning which has been invested in a design [1]. This short paper describes the use of the QOC Design Space Analysis approach ...
Simon Buckingham Shum, Allan MacLean, Justin Forde...
As data management applications grow more complex, they may need efficient distributed query processing, but also subscription management, data archival etc. To enact such applicat...