Agent-based approaches in application development seem to meet the requirements of adaptability, scalability, decentralization, and flexibility imposed by complex software systems....
A critical point for developing successful information systems for distributed organisations is the need for integrating heterogeneous technologies and tools. This paper reports a...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia,...
Information management applications exhibit a wide range of query performance and result freshness goals. Some applications, such as web search, require interactive performance, b...
Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig A. N...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
An analysis of context-aware user interfaces shows that adaptation mechanisms have a cost-benefit trade-off for usability. Unpredictable autonomous interface adaptations can easil...
Tim F. Paymans, Jasper Lindenberg, Mark A. Neerinc...