Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-c...
Middleware layers placed between user clients and application servers have been used to perform a variety of functions to support the vision of nomadic computing across varying pla...
—Bringing together heterogeneous computing devices and appliances gives rise to a spontaneous environment where resources exchange messages, such as a mobile phone telling the ca...
Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the sales and distribution phase in eHome systems. The huge market potential for affordable solutions leads to a multiplicity in terms of millions o...