The two main approaches to find data in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are unstructured networks using flooding and structured networks using a distributed index. A distributed index i...
Abstract. The Web has been rapidly “deepened” with the prevalence of databases online. On this “deep Web,” numerous sources are structured, providing schema-rich data– Th...
Software frequently needs to adapt its behavior at run time to respond to changes in its execution environment. Different software components may use different approaches to adap...
Zhenxiao Yang, Zhinan Zhou, Betty H. C. Cheng, Phi...
Scenarios and goals are effective and popular techniques for requirements definition. Validation is essential in order to ensure that they represent what stakeholders actually wan...
Abstract. Context-awareness refers to a computing model where application behavior is driven by a continually-changing environment. Mobile computing poses unique challenges to cont...