In these days most of the software development uses preexisting software components. This
approach provides plenty of benefits over the traditional development. Most of the software …

We propose a market based design for trading component-based software products bundled
with reuse licenses that allows clients to customize software solutions onsite by reusing and …

Socio-technical computing systems provide intelligent application behaviour and
anticipation to users' needs while simultaneously considering social constraints of the target …

This chapter provides a perspective on designing open educational resources (OERs) as an
activity interweaving use, design and learning. When educators decide to use OERs, one of …

With the wide application of the network and the rapid expansion of its scale, the types of
network devices deployed in one network are getting more and more as well. Each kind of …

Even modern component architectures do not provide for easily manageable context-
sensitive adaptability, a key requirement for ambient intelligence. The reason is that …

Civil society organizations and other networks of social activists have gained significant
importance in supporting citizens, as states are rolling back from their duties. In order to be …

In order to empower end-users to make well-founded decisions based on domain-specific
knowledge, companies use end-user oriented business intelligence (BI) software like …

The paper addresses the knowledge sharing needs of an Italian non-
profitassociationforfirstaid. Theirvolunteers, andparticularly ambulance drivers, need to know …