Building robots can be a tough job because the designer has to predict the interactions between the robot and the environment as well as to deal with them. One solution to cope the...
In this paper we discuss a number of implications which follow from the way that the information systems discipline has developed, largely separately, from computer ethics. These ...
A serious problem facing many organizations today is the need to share information among systems that have been developed separately. Conflicts in the structure and semantics of t...
In recent years, workflow technology has greatly facilitated business process modeling and reengineering in information systems. On one hand, the separation of an application'...
We present the systematic design and development of a distributed query scheduling service DQS in the context of DIOM, a distributed and interoperable query mediation system 26 ...