Iconic communication is paramount today in order to assist people with disability (e.g. illiteracy) enjoying, as much as everybody else, the advances in information and communication technologies (e.g. Internet). Previous ...

Combinatorial maps are widely used in image representation and processing, however map matching problems have not been extensively researched. This paper addresses the problem of inexact matching between labeled combinatorial ...

Service composition is a fundamental technique for develop- ing web-service applications. In general, a single service is not enough to achieve the user’s goal, rather several services, often from different providers, ...

Due to the growing importance of electronic commerce and on-line shopping economically and socially in people's lives, the researchers took interest in conducting several studies in order to identify the factors that urges ...

The Calculus of Context-aware Ambients (CCA in short) has been proposed as a notation that is suitable to model mobile applications that are context-aware. This paper considers a real-world case study of an infostatio ...

Current research on multi-agent systems (MAS) has become mature enough to be applied as a technology for solving problems in an increasingly wide range of complex applications. This research has been undertaken to investigate ...

Contrary to existing heterogeneous data integration systems which need to be fully integrated before using, a Dataspace Support Platform is a self-sustained system which automatically provides for the user its best endeavor ...