In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of data-centric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and vari...
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
We present PLIANT, a learning system that supports adaptive assistance in an open calendaring system. PLIANT learns user preferences from the feedback that naturally occurs during...
Melinda T. Gervasio, Michael D. Moffitt, Martha E....
Every program tells a story. Programming, then, is the art of constructing a story about the objects in the program and what they do in various situations. So-called programming l...
We propose a reputation-based trust management system, ROCQ, to reduce inauthentic and corrupted file transfers in end-user collaborative content-distribution systems. Such syste...