Enhanced Multimedia Meta Objects (EMMOs) are a novel approach to multimedia content modeling, combining media, semantic relationships between those media, as well as functionality ...
Recommender systems, notably collaborative and hybrid information filtering approaches, vitally depend on neighborhood formation, i.e., selecting small subsets of most relevant pee...
This paper focuses on the development of a principled methodology for the dependability analysis of composite Web services. The first step of the methodology involves a UML represe...
Abstract. We have recently witnessed a growing interest in self organising systems, both in research and in practice. These systems re-organise in response to new or changing condi...
Stefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Em...
An innate characteristic of the development of ontologies is that they are often created by independent groups of expertise, which generates the necessity of merging and aligning o...
Information systems must establish trust to cooperate effectively in open environments. We are developing an agent-based approach for establishing trust, where information systems ...
Abstract. Replication has been widely used in J2EE servers for reliability and scalability. There are two properties which are important for a stateful J2EE application server. Fir...
Large scale distributed real time and embedded (DRE) applications are complex entities that are often composed of different subsystems and have stringent Quality of Service (QoS) r...
Praveen Kaushik Sharma, Joseph P. Loyall, George T...
Current ubiquitous computing environments provide many kinds of information. This information may be accessed by different users under varying conditions depending on various conte...
Querying and integrating sources of structured data from the Web in most cases requires similarity-based concepts to deal with data level conflicts. This is due to the often errone...