Grid applications must increasingly self-adapt dynamically to changing environments. In most cases, adaptation has been implemented in an ad hoc fashion, on a perapplication basis...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl,...
In this paper we propose a 3-step method for designing emotionally rich interactions, illustrated by the design of an alarm clock. By emotionally rich interaction we understand in...
Stephan Wensveen, Kees Overbeeke, J. P. Djajadinin...
All the specialists have agreed that the possibility of adding to multimedia WWW objects some sort of `conceptual' annotations describing their information content would grea...
While class-based object-oriented programming languages provide a flexible mechanism for re-using and managing related pieces of code, they typically lack linguistic facilities fo...
Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Matthias Fel...
The problems posed by mission-critical legacy systems - brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, non-extensibility, lack of openness etc. - are well known, but practical solutions h...
Bing Wu, Deirdre Lawless, Jesus Bisbal, Jane Grims...