A wide-range of applications, including Publish/Subscribe, Workflow, and Web-site Personalization, require maintaining user’s interest in expected data as conditional expression...
Abstract. Inconsistent contexts are death-wounds which usually result in contextaware applications' incongruous behaviors and users' perplexed feelings, therefore the ben...
Yingyi Bu, Shaxun Chen, Jun Li, XianPing Tao, Jian...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
It has been well recognized that data mining is an interactive and iterative process. In order to support this process, one of the long-term goals of data mining research has been...
Abstract. The successful deploymentof next-generation distributedsystems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and reliability o...