The issues surrounding the question of atomicity, both in the past and nowadays, are briefly reviewed, and a picture of an ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) transactio...
Richard Banach, Czeslaw Jeske, Anthony Hall, Susan...
One distinctive feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents essential information about each user. This chapter complements other chapters of this book in revi...
The paper reviews the development of generic user modeling systems over the past twenty years. It describes their purposes, their services within user-adaptive systems, and the dif...
An ontology is increasingly becoming an essential tool for solving problems in many research areas. The ontology is a complex information object. It can contain millions of concep...
In this article, we propose to use the Discrete EVent system Specification (DEVS) formalism to describe and execute graph transformation control structures. We provide a short rev...