-- We encounter optimization problems in our daily lives and in various research domains. Some of them are so hard that we can, at best, approximate the best solutions with (meta-)...
For streaming scalably compressed video streams over unreliable networks, Limited-Retransmission Priority Encoding Transmission (LR-PET) outperforms PET remarkably since the opport...
Although it has been acknowledged for many years that querying and updating time-varying information using standard (i.e., non-temporal) SQL is a challenging task, the proposed te...
It has been argued that the challenges in electronic government are purely social: that existing methods and tools are perfectly adequate, and that electronic government projects ...
Charles Crichton, Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons, Stev...
This paper examines the use of icons as communication devices in persistent conversations. The paper presents findings from the author’s ethnographic study of a fan group on Liv...