The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
As the Grid moves towards adopting a service-oriented architecture built on Web services, coupling between processes will rely on secure, reliable, and transacted messages and be s...
Zhuoan Jiao, Jasmin L. Wason, Wenbin Song, Fenglia...
Abstract Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) offers possibilities for promising new IT-based health care services that are resulting in new challenges for its design process. We introduc...
Philipp Menschner, Andreas Prinz, Philip Koene, Fe...
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation and physical processes. Embedded computers and networks monitor and control the physical processes, usually with feedb...
Collaboration Engineering is an emerging discipline to design and deploy collaboration processes and technologies for repeatable tasks performed by groups. This paper documents th...
Robert J. Harder, Jean M. Keeter, Bryan W. Woodcoc...