Information Technology (IT) offshore outsourcing is a non-reversible trend due to its cost implications, and as a result, target of much inquiry in different areas of knowledge. W...
J. Roberto Evaristo, Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy, Rafa...
The paper presents a comparative analysis of data harvesting and distributed computing as complementary models of service delivery within large-scale federated digital libraries. I...
The notion of application – a single, bounded piece of functionality presented to users – goes almost unquestioned. However in the context of highly adaptive and ambient system...
Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm aimed to offer users pay-per-use computing resources, while leaving the burden of managing the computing infrastructure to the cloud provid...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Anmol V. Singh, Vasu Singh, T...
Mobile devices make ideal personal ambient information systems given their ubiquitous adoption by users and their rich context knowledge of users’ activity. However, we believe ...