Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
An accurate cost-model that accounts for dataset size and structure can help optimize geoscience data analysis. We develop and apply a computational model to estimate data analysi...
: Digital piracy is threatening the global multimedia content industry and blindly applied coercive Digital Right Management (DRM) policies do nothing but legitimizing this piracy....
A new minimally invasive surgical technique for lumbar spine fixation is currently in development. The procedure makes use of an interbody implant that is inserted between two ver...
Abstract This paper is about tool support for knowledgeintensive engineering tasks. In particular, it introduces software technology to assist the design of complex technical syste...