Information systems support data privacy by constraining user's access to public views and thereby hiding the non-public underlying data. The privacy problem is to prove that ...
With the aim of building a "Semantic Web", the content of the documents must be explicitly represented through metadata in order to enable contents-guided search. Our app...
Service-level agreements (SLA) definition and monitoring are open issues within the IT Service Management (ITSM) domain. Our main goals are to propose a model-based approach to IT ...
This paper discusses some preliminary results of the author's on-going research into the representation of product function information for integrated knowledge-based environ...
The cost of deploying a ubiquitous system to enhance a physical environment is likely to be considerable. The success of its deployment is highly dependent on its context: the phy...