Franchising has been popular as a growth strategy for small businesses; it is even more so in today’s global and information-based economy. In early 2001, Entrepreneur magazine...
With access to real-time information on critical performance indicators of business processes, managers and staff members can play a crucial role in improving the speed and effecti...
In response to Searle's well-known Chinese room argument against Strong AI (and more generally, computationalism), Harnad proposed that if the symbols manipulated by a robot ...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
This paper describes revised content-based search experiments in the context of TRECVID 2003 benchmark. Experiments focus on measuring content-based video retrieval performance wi...