The market for software components is growing, driven on the "demand side" by the need for rapid deployment of highly functional products, and on the "supply side&q...
We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR servic...
In this paper we describe a serializer component completely realized in .NET managed code, able to run on a stripped versions of the .NET platform (e.g., Compact Framework) and st...
This paper presents an analysis of the future of Embedded Linux in the PostPC industry. This analysis is carried out by first examining the current forces at work in the PostPC ma...
In this paper we present a new database of online handwritten documents with different contents such as text, drawings, diagrams, formulas, tables, lists, and markings. It was de...