The trends of miniaturization and increasing storage capabilities for portable music players made it possible to carry increasingly more music on small portable devices, but it al...
Fabio Vignoli, Rob van Gulik, Huub van de Wetering
— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...
Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become an attractive alternative platform for high performance computing. Due to the commodity nature of workstations and interconnects and due...
Mohammad Banikazemi, Vijay Moorthy, Dhabaleswar K....
Empirical evaluation of software systems in actual usage situations is critical in software engineering. Prototyping, beta testing, and usability testing are widely used to refine...