—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it...
—In this paper, we define and illustrate a new form of attack in the context of software services: the software-based need-to-know (SN2K) attack. SN2K attacks can be carried out...
In this work a framework for constructing object detection classifiers using weakly annotated social data is proposed. Social information is combined with computer vision techniq...