: Modern information systems are becoming more and more socio-technical systems, namely systems composed of human (social) agents and software (technical) systems operating togethe...
Database storage managers have long been able to efficiently handle multiple concurrent requests. Until recently, however, a computer contained only a few single-core CPUs, and th...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas...
— This paper presents a beat-counting robot that can count musical beats aloud, i.e., speak “one, two, three, four, one, two, ...” along music, while listening to music by us...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Abstract. The inhomogeneous Poisson (Laplace) equation with internal Dirichlet boundary conditions has recently appeared in several applications ranging from image segmentation [1,...