The preservation and representation of folklore collections is a basic priority for every country because they are valuable for studying the customs and the tradition of specific ...
In this research, we investigated the everyday life of inpatients in a hospital. We found that family members want to meet with inpatients even if they are very busy with their wo...
As the number of resources on the Grid tends to be very dynamic and potentially large, it becomes increasingly important to discover and monitor them efficiently. This paper conce...
Helene N. Lim Choi Keung, Justin R. D. Dyson, Step...
Data exchange between embedded systems and other small or large computing devices increases. Since data in different data sources may refer to the same real world objects, data ca...
In this paper, we propose a framework for building a self-adaptive Content Distribution Network (CDN). Such a CDN will exhibit selfadaptive behaviour at a coarse grained granulari...
To achieve correct execution of peer-to-peer applications on non-reliable resources, we present a portable and distributed algorithm that provides fault tolerance and result checki...
We have developed an automated Japanese essay scoring system named jess. The system evaluates an essay from three features: (1) Rhetoric -- ease of reading, diversity of vocabular...
In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
The concept of automating Web services, specifically the brokering activities, is an active research topic. We need a comprehensive and overarching framework that handles the disc...
In this paper we describe a novel approach to the incremental, semi-automated method for composition of web services in a geographical domain. First, we present the incremental co...