The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
The Human-Computer Interaction community has long been concerned with design. Terms such as ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ are frequently used when referring to the design ...
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be greatly reduced by the automatic refactoring of object-oriented programs to increase their understandability, adaptabili...
BPEL is a de-facto standard language for web service orchestration. It is a challenge to test BPEL processes automatically because of the complex features of the language. The cur...
The ability to express preferences for specific tasks in multi-agent auctions is an important element for potential users who are considering to use such auctioning systems. This p...