Adaptive information systems typically exploit knowledge about the user’s interests, preferences, goals etc. to determine what should be presented to the user and how this presen...
Abstract. Web portals provide an efficient gateway to a broad range of Eservices, resources and information. Web portals need to evolve towards being adaptive in nature, so that th...
The rapid growth of the Web has made it possible to build collaborative applications on an unprecedented scale. However, the request-reply interaction model of HTTP limits the rang...
This paper provides a conservative estimation of the required bandwidth for video sources multiplexed according to the bu erless scheme and using the Statistical Bit Rate transfer...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...