In smart item environments, multitude of sensors are applied to capture data about product conditions and usage to guide business decisions as well as production automation proces...
Anja Klein, Hong Hai Do, Gregor Hackenbroich, Marc...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
The highly variable and dynamic word usage in social media presents serious challenges for both research and those commercial applications that are geared towards blogs or other u...
Social media websites promote diverse user interaction on media objects as well as user actions with respect to other users. The goal of this work is to discover community structu...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
Technology to support knowledge transfer and cooperative inquiry must offer its users the ability to effectively interpret knowledge structures produced by collaborators. Communic...