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IFIP
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Secure Information Flow for Distributed Systems
We present an abstract language for distributed systems of processes with local memory and private communication channels. Communication between processes is done via messaging. Th...
Rafael Alpízar, Geoffrey Smith
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VLDB
1999
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Cost Models DO Matter: Providing Cost Information for Diverse Data Sources in a Federated System
An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
Mary Tork Roth, Fatma Ozcan, Laura M. Haas
ECIS
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Reflections on the use of grounded theory in interpretive information systems research
In Information Systems research there are a growing number of studies that must necessarily draw upon the contexts, experiences and narratives of practitioners. This calls for res...
Jim Hughes, Steven Jones
BEHAVIOURIT
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Individual attitude toward improvisation in information systems development
Improvisation is rapidly becoming an important issue for both scholars and practitioners. Organizations that operate in turbulent environments must learn to swiftly adapt and resp...
Massimo Magni, B. Provera, Luigi Proserpio
JILT
2000
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15 years 1 months ago
Automatic Classification and Intelligent Clustering for WWWeb Information Retrieval Systems
In this paper we present some aspects of an intelligent interface for a WWWeb legal information retrieval system. Our system is able to keep the context of the user interaction in...
Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues