Abstract. The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, and its implementation based on Web Services, have been the object of an intense research and standardization activity. One of...
Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Paol...
User preferences for automated assistance often vary widely, depending on the situation, and quality or presentation of help. Developing effective models to learn individual prefe...
With wireless communications and mobile hand-held devices becoming a reality, new applications where users can have access to information anytime, anywhere are made possible. To d...
: Sentient Computing gives perception to computing systems so that they can detect, interpret and respond to changing aspects of users' context. The location attribute of a us...
When foraging for information, users face a tradeoff between the accuracy and value of the acquired information and the time spent collecting it, a problem which also surfaces whe...