Participatory methods can, in principle, be applied for a variety of purposes to gain insight into the context of use of an artefact or the way in which tasks are performed by end ...
Adaptive hypermedia systems traditionally focus on providing personalised learning services for formal or informal learners. The learning material is typically sourced from a prop...
—Supply chain [2], [6] is an important component of business operations. Understanding its stochastic behaviors is the key to risk analysis and performance evaluation in supply c...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
In distributed work systems, individual users perform work for other users. A significant challenge in these systems is to provide proper incentives for users to contribute as muc...