Rapid evolution of the World Wide Web with its underlying sources of data, knowledge, services and applications continually attempts to support a variety of users, with different backgrounds, requirements and capabilities. In such an environment, it is highly unlikely that a single user interface will prevail and be able to fulfill the requirements of each user adequately. Adaptive user interfa...

Policy-based networking technologies have been introduced as a promising solution to the problem of management of QoS-enabled networks. However, the potentials of these technologies have not been fully exploited yet. This paper proposes a novel policy-based architecture for autonomous self-adaptable network management. The proposed framework utilizes case-based reasoning (CBR) paradigms for onl...

In pervasive environments, the runtime adaptation of applications is done considering available event sources and services. To do that, the events have to be collected and processed, and the volatile services identified and accessed. However, although the event flow and service mobility are key issues in the adaptation process, existing solutions fail to deal with them in a simple and flexible ...

Using the theoretical lens of compensatory adaptation theory, this study examines how organizational problem-solving teams adapt to lean media and effectively communicate. We examined several successful virtual teams using a bulletin board as their primary communication medium to perform complex process improvement tasks in their natural business environment. Although some established theories ...

For various reasons such as ideology of patronage, fear of censorial measures and specific cultural and literary plans, authors may present their original texts as translation, and sometimes translators manipulate the original text to the extent that it can not be considered as translation anymore. This research was aimed at investigating Bastin's adaptation as a kind of pseudo-translation. He ...

My goal in this position paper is to take a number of technologies I have been involved with as a starting point for some reflections on evolutionary patterns in the adoption and use of collaborative technologies. I put these two together because I believe that adoption and use must be seen as parts of the same process, and in fact that use can be seen as the continual re-adoption of technology...

Link adaptation is a process of paramount importance to optimize the performance of wireless communication systems. However, standardization committees have not standardized link adaptation procedures in order to foster competitiveness among vendors. As a consequence, many research projects have been conducted on this field and several strategies have been presented and tested, mainly for High ...

nowadays, technologies are providing the mobile terminals with much more powerful computational abilities. Such improvement made it possible to run many complex applications on mobile devices. However, many of these new applications are also resources demanding. Lacking sufficient resources would cause performance failures and impact negatively on the users’ quality of experience. In order to i...

Dynamic Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) technologies typically provide coarse-grained mechanisms for adapting aspects that cross-cut a system deployment; i.e. whole aspect modules can be added and removed at runtime. However, in this paper we demonstrate that adaptation of the finer-grained elements of individual aspect modules is required in highly dynamic systems and applications. We presen...

UNLABELLED Deep sequencing technologies are revealing the complexities of cancer evolution, casting light on mutational processes fueling tumor adaptation, immune escape, and treatment resistance. Understanding mechanisms driving cancer diversity is a critical step toward developing strategies to attenuate tumor evolution and adaptation. One emerging mechanism fueling tumor diversity and subclo...