The mediator-wrapper approach to integrate data from heterogeneous data sources has usually been centralized in the sense that a single mediator system is placed between a number o...
SOCK is a process calculus for the modeling of Service Oriented systems recently extended with primitives for dynamic fault and compensation handling. In this paper we investigate...
A central challenge in the design of motivationally intelligent tutoring systems lies in defining and diagnosing a learner’s motivational state: in particular, in distinguishing ...
Research efforts have been directed toward the improvement of privacy protecting technology by incorporating privacy protection into database systems. Purpose acts as a central co...
The idea of Conceptual Neighbourhood Diagram (CND) has proved its relevance in the areas of qualitative reasoning about time and qualitative reasoning about space. In this work, a ...