Abstract. Emergence--macro-level effects from micro-level causes--is at the heart of the conflict between reductionism and functionalism. How can there be autonomous higher level l...
The complicated user interfaces and complex functionality of nowadays interactive products lead to a new class of failures: People do not understand their products and thus fail t...
Sanitization of a document involves removing sensitive information from the document, so that it may be distributed to a broader audience. Such sanitization is needed while declas...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Himanshu Gupta, Prasa...
Towards a sustainable society, design of artifacts must be optimized with limited resources on the earth while keeping our life. In order to realize it, I emphasize openness of des...
Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be used...