In this paper we argue that “persuasive technologies,” developed to motivate behaviour change in users, have so far failed to exploit the established body of empirical researc...
Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun Lawson, Derek Fos...
This paper contributes a general approach to characterizing patterns of change in a spatio-temporal database. While there is a particular interest in modelling and querying how sp...
Nassima Djafri, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. ...
We present preliminary results of a project to create a tuning system that adaptively optimizes programs to the underlying execution platform. We will show initial results from tw...
Abstract. The success of DEVS methods for simulating large continuous models calls for more in-depth examination of the applicability of discrete events in modeling continuous phen...
Bernard P. Zeigler, Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka, Sal...
The J2EE platform provides a variety of options for making business data persistent using DBMS technology. However, the integration with existing backend database systems has prov...