The Internet presents numerous sources of useful information--telephone directories, product catalogs, stock quotes, event listings, etc. Recently, many systems have been built th...
—With ever-growing complexity of computer and communication systems analytical methods do not scale, especially with respect to dependability assessment of information technology...
Tobias Goldschmidt, Andreas Dittrich, Miroslaw Mal...
Task-specific groups are often formed in an ad-hoc manner within big structures, like companies. Take the following typical scenario: A high rank manager decides that a task force...
For decades now, the notion of “performance” has been synonymous with “speed” (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). Unfortunately, this ...
With the advances in digital imagery, large accessible data storage, internet repositories, and image applications, information conveyed through images is gaining in importance. T...