Conventional thinking would conclude that agile and ISO must not be compatible. After all, ISO is often characterized as being heavy on process / heavy on documentation – the op...
In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...
Information Systems (IS) have a major impact on human activities. They are not only "objects or products" because they directly concern our access to knowledge, our possi...
Context-aware systems capture information from the attributes located within their surroundings and deal with different ways of interacting with the user in its environment. This p...
A parallel version of the plane sweep algorithm targeted towards the small number of processing cores available on commonly available multi-core systems is presented. Experimental...