Motivation – Designers make decisions that later influence how users work with the systems that they have designed. When errors occur in use, it is tempting to focus on the acti...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
In UML2.0, significant efforts have been devoted towards a better definition of OCL. Still, the adoption of the language by the software engineers remains a significant challenge....
Designing an optimal overlay communication network for a set of processes on the Internet is a central problem of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. Such a network defines membership a...
Many computer vision systems try to infer semantic information about a video scene content by looking at the time series of the silhouettes of the moving objects. This paper propo...