A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
We studied the role of the competence of an interface agent that helped users to learn and use a text editor. Participants in the study made a set of changes to a document with th...
Abstract. The proliferation of interconnected computing devices is fostering the emergence of environments where Web services made available to mobile users are a commodity. Unfort...
Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar,...
Linda tuple spaces are flat and unstructured, in the sense that they do not allow for expressing preferences of tuples; for example, we could be interested in indicating tuples th...
Mario Bravetti, Roberto Gorrieri, Roberto Lucchi, ...
Applications such as audio fingerprinting require search in high dimensions: find an item in a database that is similar to a query. An important property of this search task is t...
Jonathan Goldstein, John C. Platt, Christopher J. ...