Team members usually cooperate on a business process by partitioning it into several activities, which in turn generate one or more work items. Work items either need to be proces...
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
A system composed of multiple interacting components is capable of responding to contextual information and producing a higher range of non-linear responses to stimuli compared to...
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...
Global public computing platforms, such as PlanetLab, grid computing systems, and XenoServers, require facilities for managing trust to allow their participants to interact effect...