Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Abstract—Bringing heterogeneous devices like industrial machines, home appliances, and wireless sensors into the Web assumes the usage of well-defined standards and protocols. O...
The primary challenge for information terminals, kiosks, and incidental use systems of all sorts, is that of getting the “first click” from busy passersby. This paper presents ...
Dynamic deployment of aspects brings greater flexibility and reuse potential, but requires a proper means for scoping aspects. Scoping issues are particularly crucial in a distri...
—The literature on protein function prediction is currently dominated by works aimed at maximizing predictive accuracy, ignoring the important issues of validation and interpreta...