New devices gaining access to the Internet need to obtain multimedia content adapted to their limited capacities. Scalable formats allow to retrieve different versions of a single...
Abstract. This paper describes how function-based shape modeling can be expanded to web visualization, as well as how web-based visualization can be greatly improved by using the f...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
As XML is gathering more and more importance in the field of data interchange in distributed business to business (B2B) applications, it is increasingly important to provide a for...
This paper discusses the effect of context on mobile usability, proposes an expanded model of mobile application context, and conducts an empirical study to test a number of hypot...