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SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating the Usability of Portable Electronic Books
This paper outlines the methodology and results of the EBONI Project’s evaluation of portable electronic books, in which staff from UK academia were provided with a selection of...
Ruth Wilson, Monica Landoni
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Comparing Semantic Frameworks for Coordination: On the Conformance Issue for Coordination Media
A fundamental issue in the engineering of coordination models is n coordination abstractions that are correct with respect to the specification of the coordination model they imp...
Mirko Viroli
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Image Retrieval Effectiveness in Query-by-Example Environment
Query-by-example is the most popular query model for today’s image retrieval systems. A typical query image contains not only relevant objects (e.g., Eiffel Tower), but also ir...
Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Ning Jiang
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
SOM - Feature Extraction from Patient Discharge Summaries
Dyan J. Tufts-Conrad, A. Nur Zincir-Heywood, David...
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
reality: a Scalable Intelligent Travel Planner
Many information systems are used in a problem solving context. Examples are travel planning systems, catalogs in electronic commerce, or agenda planning systems. They can be made...
Marc Torrens, Patrick Hertzog, Loic Samson, Boi Fa...
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
iGrocer- A Ubiquitous and Pervasive Smart Grocery Shopping System
Emerging Smart phones are poised to give a whole new dimension to the way we shop, bank, and go about many of our everyday activities. iGrocer is a smart grocery shopping assistant...
Sangeetha Shekar, Prashant Nair, Abdelsalam Helal
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Designing and Specifying Mobility within the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology
Recently, researchers have created many platforms and applications for mobile agents; however, current Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies have yet not fully ...
Athie L. Self, Scott A. DeLoach
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Are Multiagent Algorithms Relevant for Real Hardware? A Case Study of Distributed Constraint Algorithms
Researchers building multi-agent algorithms typically work with abstracted away from real applications. The abstracted problem instances allow systematic and detailed investigatio...
Paul Scerri, Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen, Mili...