The integration of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems is at the centre of many of the new regional and national initiatives to integrate clinical processes across department,...
This paper proposes a design for the optimized dynamic (re)composition of services that supports various user requests and accounts for changes in user`s context. The composition ...
In this paper, we focus on an aspect of distributed XQuery processing that involves data exchanges between processor elements. We first address problems of distributed XML query p...
Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokaz...
In this paper we provide a study about crime scenes and its features used in criminal investigations. We argue that the crime scene provides a large set of features that can be us...
Ricardo O. Abu Hana, Cinthia Obladen de Almendra F...
One of the main issues that inhibit the development of contextaware mobile applications is the lack of systematic methods for sensor data acquisition. This lack, however, is a res...
Middleware-based database replication protocols require few or no changes in the database engine. As a consequence, they are more portable and flexible than kernel-based protocols...
In a system development, the knowledge of a target business is very important factor for the success of a development. The needed part of such knowledge is different for each stak...
Distributedsoftwareenvironmentsareincreasinglycomplex anddiculttomanage,astheyintegratevariouslegacysoftware with specic management interfaces. Moreover, the factthatmanagementtas...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Patricia Stolf, No...