If you were told that some object A was perfectly (or somewhat, or not at all) in some direction (e.g., west, above-right) of some reference object B, where in space would you loo...
The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either ad-hoc, or has been influenced by the top-down approaches, such as ‘virtua...
The sales of customisable products and services over the internet is a challenging task within the area of electronic commerce. In this chapter we will present a case study which s...
Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Fr...
The emergence of heterogeneous many core architectures presents a unique opportunity for delivering order of magnitude performance increases to high performance applications by ma...
One of the main challenges faced by content-based publish/subscribe systems is handling large amount of dynamic subscriptions and publications in a multidimensional content space....