We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
The paper proposes an adaptive web system--that is, a website that is capable of changing its original design to fit user requirements. For the purpose of improving shortcomings o...
measuring the product's "lower abstraction attributes."5 We see attributes as measurable properties of an entity--here, a Web application--and propose using a qualit...
This paper is a July 1999 snapshot of a "whitepaper" that I've been working on. The purpose of the whitepaper, which I initially drafted in April 1999, was to formu...
Recent advances in flash media have made it an attractive alternative for data storage in a wide spectrum of computing devices, such as embedded sensors, mobile phones, PDA's...