Abstract— This paper presents our work on supporting flexible query evaluation over large distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous sources. Flexibility means that the query ev...
The increasing use of information technology within and between companies yields changes in the predominant coordination mechanisms. On one hand it is argued that we witness an ov...
In this paper we introduce a simple model based on probabilistic finite state automata to describe an emotional interaction between a robot and a human user, or between simulated a...
Isabella Cattinelli, Massimiliano Goldwurm, N. Alb...
Automatic tuning has been an elusive goal for database technology for a long time and is becoming a pressing issue for modern E-services. This paper reviews and assesses the advan...
This contribution presents our work towards a system that autonomously guides the user's visual attention on important information (e.g., traffic situation or in-car system st...