Information availability has increased consumers’ informedness, the degree to which they know what is available in the marketplace, with precisely which attributes and at precis...
This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels, and do...
Abstract. The increasing gap of processor and main memory performance underlines the need for cache-optimizations, especially on memoryintensive applications. Tools which are able ...
Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for lightweight enterprise integration. They cross organizational boundaries, are provided by entities that see each other ...
The problem of consciousness has been divided by philosophers into the problem of Access Consciousness and the problem of Phenomenal Consciousness or "raw feel". In this ...