The role of a facilitator is key to the effective establishment and maintenance of communities of practice (COPs). This paper presents challenges faced by facilitators in COPs bas...
The importance of personalized information services has been increasing. Description of personal preferences needs to be prepared beforehand to realize such services. We propose a...
— We describe the design of a contact imager for applications in lab-on-a-chip systems, such as sample preparation and manipulation and monitoring of cells. This is a challenging...
For most users, authoring multimedia documents remains a complex task. One solution to deal with this problem is to provide template-based authoring tools but with the drawback of...
Automatic table layout is required in web applications. Unfortunately, this is NP-hard for reasonable layout requirements such as minimizing table height for a given width. One ap...