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VL
2009
IEEE
142views Visual Languages» more  VL 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Using a degree of interest model to facilitate ontology navigation
Understanding and maintaining the structure of large ontologies is a cognitively demanding task. Visualizations are commonly used as a cognitive aid for presenting large ontologie...
Tricia d'Entremont, Margaret-Anne Storey
HICSS
2000
IEEE
113views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2000»
14 years 2 months ago
Initial Evidence for Self-Organized Criticality in Electric Power System Blackouts
We examine correlations in a time series of electric power system blackout sizes using scaled window variance analysis and R/S statistics. The data shows some evidence of long tim...
Benjamin A. Carreras, David E. Newman, Ian Dobson,...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Language for Specifying the Composition of Reliable Distributed Applications
This paper describes the design of a scripting language aimed at expressing task (unit of computation) composition and inter-task dependencies of distributed applications whose ex...
Frédéric Ranno, Santosh K. Shrivasta...
BIRTE
2006
133views Business» more  BIRTE 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Leveraging Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems for Scalable Stream Query Processing
Existing distributed publish/subscribe systems (DPSS) offer loosely coupled and easy to deploy content-based stream delivery services to a large number of users. However, the lack ...
Yongluan Zhou, Kian-Lee Tan, Feng Yu
GROUP
1995
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Understanding the requirements for information system documentation: an empirical investigation
Software and Information Systems (IS) documents are a common product of large IS development e orts. These documents are produced and consumed through a variety of documentation p...
Abdulaziz Jazzar, Walt Scacchi