One distinctive feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents essential information about each user. This chapter complements other chapters of this book in revi...
This chapter discusses content-based recommendation systems, i.e., systems that recommend an item to a user based upon a description of the item and a profile of the user’s inter...
— This paper describes work in progress to extend component models to support Master-Worker applications and to let them to be executed on Grid infrastructures. The proposed appr...
The dialogue that follows was written to express some of our ideas and remaining questions about IT systems, moral agency, and responsibility. We seem to have made some progress o...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a very promising next generation networks. Prediction is an essential aspect in the deployment of MANETs. Current work mainly focuses on mobili...