In this paper we propose a method to simulate human beings based on anatomy concepts. We believe that the closer our model is to reality, the better will be our results. Using thi...
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. We found that anim...
Since the 1970’s, database systems have been “compute-centric”. When a computation needs the data, it requests the data, and the data are pulled through the system. We belie...
Subi Arumugam, Alin Dobra, Christopher M. Jermaine...
We argue that there is a gap between software engineering cultivated in the universities and industrial software development. We believe that it is possible to get academia and ind...
We explore the potential of hardware transactional memory (HTM) to improve concurrent algorithms. We illustrate a number of use cases in which HTM enables significantly simpler c...
Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Mo...
Video streaming over wireless links is a non-trivial problem due to the large and frequent changes in the quality of the underlying radio channel combined with latency constraints...
Jacco R. Taal, Koen Langendoen, Arjen van der Scha...
Creativity is an important asset in today’s fast changing environment. We believe it can and should be stimulated in educational environments, through the use of tools and carefu...
Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua, Francisco Mattos, Albe...
We propose a novel approach that identifies web page templates and extracts the unstructured data. Extracting only the body of the page and eliminating the template increases the ...
We report on experience with using RDF to provide a rich content language for use with FIPA agent toolkits, and on RDFS as a metadata language. We emphasise their utility for prog...
Kit-ying Hui, Stuart Chalmers, Peter M. D. Gray, A...