A key challenge for software that supports asynchronous distance education is to engage and guide students who are not interacting in real-time. We describe a first study of two a...
In this paper, we present ANIMAL, a new tool for developing animations to be used in lectures. ANIMAL offers a small but powerful set of graphical operators. Animations are genera...
The paper studies crown reductions for the Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover problem introduced recently in the unweighted case by Fellows et al. [Blow-Ups, Win/Win's and crown r...
Database storage management in clustered storage environments is a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. Such management involves regular movement of database objects acro...
Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such platforms wil...