Object technology was first created in 1967, but it had to wait till the mid 80’s for widespread acceptance and adoption. We observe that that was not the only hiatus for the te...
Deduplication is a key operation in integrating data from multiple sources. The main challenge in this task is designing a function that can resolve when a pair of records refer t...
Role-based collaboration (RBC) is proposed to support people’s collaboration with more usable human-computer interfaces. To approach the objectives of RBC, new practical tools a...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are widely used for describing interaction scenarios between the components of a distributed system. Consequently, worst-case response time estimati...
Abstract This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a footstep based indoor location system. The traditional Japanese GETA sandals are equipped with force, u...