The Visual Acts theory aims to provide intelligent assistance for camera viewpoint selection during teleoperation. It combines top-down partitioning of a task and bottom-up monito...
Gerard T. McKee, Bernard G. Brooks, Paul S. Schenk...
Identifying the true type of a computer file can be a difficult problem. Previous methods of file type recognition include fixed file extensions, fixed “magic numbers” stored ...
By the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people worldwide—2.7 million under age 15—were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 70 percent of these people (28.1 million) live in Su...
Knowledge management is a topic that has gained increasing attention since the mid-1990s. A knowledge management strategy involves consciously helping people share and put knowled...
EnCompass®1 , a web-enabled system for organizational process visualization, analysis, synthesis, and management, provides an interactive vehicle for understanding the influence ...
We apply multiple query optimization to batches of pull (on-demand) requests in a mobile database system. The resulting view can answer several queries at once, and it is broadcas...
—Unlike in a wired network, a packet transmitted by a node in an ad hoc wireless network can reach all neighbors. Therefore, the total number of transmissions (forward nodes) is ...
The Internet can be used to solve pedagogical problems. To give an example, seminars for crowded courses exceeding a hundred participants would not be possible without web-based a...
Incompatibility of component interaction styles is identified as a major obstacle to interoperability when using off-the-shelf components or dealing with legacy software in compos...