The application of conceptual models that assure both the consistency and usability of Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC's) is a main concern in the e-commerce community, mainl...
The problem of consistently engineering large, complex software systems of today is often addressed by introducing new, "improved" models. Examples of such models are arc...
The requirements for the QoS of distributed applications are traditionally expressed in terms of network oriented or systems oriented parameters. In general, the users of these ser...
Cristian Hesselman, Ing Widya, Aart van Halteren, ...
In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for local communication between devices in Ubiquitous Computing environments, assuming a multitude of computerized everyday appliances comm...
Multidimensional data cubes are used in large data warehouses as a tool for online aggregation of information. As the number of dimensions increases, supporting efficient queries ...