This paper examines the use of icons as communication devices in persistent conversations. The paper presents findings from the author’s ethnographic study of a fan group on Liv...
The design of an Extract – Transform – Load (ETL) workflow for the population of a Data Warehouse is a complex and challenging procedure. In previous work, we have presented an...
We consider the problem of distributed task allocation across swarm units comprising a swarm-based system. We model task allocation as a dynamic pricing problem within a market se...
This paper describes a context information acquisition framework for a personal device that equips a variety of sensors. The framework captures context information about a user an...
This paper outlines a novel approach to the computation of answer sets in an evolving and interactive environment. Instead of recomputing the semantics of the entire program, our a...