: This paper reports on the automatic metadata generation applications (AMeGA) project's metadata expert survey. Automatic metadata generation research is reviewed and the stu...
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
A combinatorial channel is a set of pairs of words describing all the possible input-output channel situations. We introduce the concept "maximal error-detecting capability&q...
This paper discusses the determination of the spare inventory level for a multiechelon repairable item inventory system, which has several bases and a central depot with emergency ...
Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in collaborative graphics design systems (CGDS). Awareness of coopera...