Methods for automatically managing the performance of computing services must estimate a performance model of that service. This paper explores properties that are necessary for p...
University Fernando Pessoa, a small university with around 4500 students enrolled, has developed a Web application to support administrative work for its teaching staff. It is a w...
Currently, there is an increasing effort to provide various personalized services on museum web sites. This paper presents an approach for determining user interests in a museum c...
Rule bases are common in many business rule applications, clinical decision support programs, and other types of intelligent systems. As the size of the rule bases grows and the in...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...