Abstract--Nowadays, novel applications, such as personalized e-commerce services, call for cooperation across enterprise boundaries. Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) forms a sol...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
This paper explores the cognitive limits of estimation in the context of software cost estimation. Two heuristics, representativeness and anchoring, motivate two experiments invol...
An emerging trend in Web computing aims at collecting and integrating distributed data. For instance, community driven efforts recently have build ontological repositories made of...
—Direct volume rendering is an important tool for visualizing complex data sets. However, in the process of generating 2D images from 3D data, information is lost in the form of ...