— There are many grid-based applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require a significant computation and possibly communic...
We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...
Software systems are increasingly being built as compositions of reusable artifacts (components, frameworks, toolkits, plug-ins, APIs, etc) that have non-trivial usage constraints...
This paper considers the problem of altering an image by imperceptibly adding or removing pixels, for example, to fit a differently shaped frame with minimal loss of interesting ...
The work of Boden on the nature of creativity has been extremely influential, particularly the hypothesis that the highest form of creativity results from transformation of a conce...