Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time flexible tools to leave...
Although many spatio-temporal conceptual models has been proposed in the last years, users must express their queries on the underlying physical data structures. In the context of ...
In this paper we propose a taxonomy for classifying COTS business applications, i.e. products that are used in the daily functioning of all types of organizations worldwide, such a...
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer, Ma...
The Internet has enabled a great amount of information to be readily available and easily accessible. It has promoted several changes in the world, including in the education area...
Sean W. M. Siqueira, Maria Helena Lima Baptista Br...
We present our Component-Based Agent Framework, which enables a software engineer to design a set of agents by using a visual compo nent-based toolkit (Sun’s BDK), and wiring tog...