The ‘theorise-inquire’ technique is described, which supports the testing of both experts’ hunches and the quality of data sources. This technique is useful for the identifi...
Autonomic Computing is a promising new concept in system development. It aims to (i) increase reliability by designing systems to be self-protecting and self-healing; and (ii) inc...
The Internet has enabled a great amount of information to be readily available and easily accessible. It has promoted several changes in the world, including in the education area...
Sean W. M. Siqueira, Maria Helena Lima Baptista Br...
We present the framework of a new grid architecture based on the peer-to-peer and the component paradigms. In our architecture, several peer-to-peer components are loosely coupled...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
The paper describes the Jur-Wordnet (Jur-IWN) project, whose objective is an ontology-based extension to the legal domain of the Italian version of EuroWordNet. It aims at providi...
As users, computers, data and processes become increasingly mobile and the diversity of interacting devices increases, pervasive computing tasks are difficult to predict and to u...