Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and disti...
Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, Fran&...
The large and growing number of computing devices used by individuals has caused the challenges of distributed storage to take on increased importance. In addition to desktops and...
Daniel Peek, Douglas B. Terry, Venugopalan Ramasub...
Prepaid customers in mobile telecommunications are not bound by a contract and can therefore change operators (`churn') at their convenience and without notification. This mak...
Dejan Radosavljevik, Peter van der Putten, Kim Kyl...
Currently computers are changing from single isolated devices into entry points into a worldwide network of information exchange and business transactions. Support in data, inform...
Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks, Frank van Harmelen, S...
We propose a new approach to programming web applications that increases the web's computational power, the web's flexibility, and web programmer productivity. Whereas w...