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Measuring the strength of information flows in programs
A detailed analysis of the use of correlation and entropy measures to examine the relationship between data and control variables, as accessed by different programs, is presented in this paper. The idea is to see if, by exhaustively testing only certain segments... more
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How the art of reasoning is necessary
When one of his audience said, ‘Convince me that logic is useful,’ he said, Would you have me demonstrate it? ‘Yes.’ Well... more |
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Product placement in interactive games: ACE 09
As more people spend more time with video games and less time with other entertainment media, such as television, advertisers must explore new channels for exposing their products to potential customers... more
Games (K.8.0...) | Mar 12 10
Ambient sites: making tangible the subtle, ephemeral and seemingly silent: TEI 10
This paper proposes a transdisciplinary psycho-physics laboratory that serves as a training workshop for accelerating artistic awareness, presumably in the furtherance of personal creative maturity. It neither quantifies nature... more
Arts & Humanities (J.5) | Mar 12 10
Improving the extraction of bilingual terminology from Wikipedia: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Wikipedia is presumably the most popular encyclopedia on the Net. It is maintained by users who are not necessarily specialists in the respective fields, so the quality of the knowledge presented is... more
Linguistic Processing (H.3.1...) | Mar 12 10
Understanding learning: the wiki way: WikiSym 09
Learning through wikis is a form of informal learning that involves a community of learners. To understand it, one has to understand its two components: the cognitive process of the individual learners... more
Group & Organization Interfaces (H.5.3) | Mar 12 10
Selective replication: a lightweight technique for soft errors: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
By selectively replicating only those instructions that have the highest probability of failing due to soft errors--caused by particle strikes, noise, electromagnetic interference, or electrostatic... more
Reliability, Test., & Fault-Tolerance (B.8.1) | Mar 11 10
Cost optimization of industrial steel building structures: Advances in Engineering Software
Single-story industrial steel-frame building structures are analyzed with respect to topology (number of portal frames), standard cross-sections of steel beams, and the cost of optimizing such a building, subject to building codes... more
Nonlinear Programming (G.1.6...) | Mar 11 10
Modelling perception using image processing algorithms: BCS-HCI 09
A visual perception model that predicts visual search time is discussed in this paper. Of specific interest to the authors is a model that can be utilized for both disabled and able people. The experiment... more
User Interfaces (D.2.2...) | Mar 11 10
Localized spanner construction for ad hoc networks with variable transmission range: ADHOC-NOW 08
A spanner of a geometric graph G is a spanning subgraph S, such that the length of the shortest path between any two vertices in G is well approximated by the distance provided by a path in S... more
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Mar 11 10
Architecture of information system combining SOA and BPM: ICIII 08
In a service-oriented architecture (SOA) business and information technology (IT), alignment happens in the service layer. To profit from the service layer, business departments reuse these services... more
Systems & Information Theory (H.1.1) | Mar 10 10
AGE@HOME: radio-enabled environments for independent ageing: Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Currently, nearly 39 million Americans are 65 or older. Moreover, the fastest growing segment of the US population is the very old (those aged 85 and older). It is projected that there will be 9.6... more
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Mar 9 10
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Foundations for efficient Web service selection
The movement of key functions and applications to the Web is at the heart of Web services. But the rapid proliferation of Web services generates a new problem--a user’s ability to locate the best Web service for... more
Web-Based Services (H.3.5...) | Mar 12 10
Privacy in location-based applications: research issues and emerging trends
This edited book provides the state of the art in research on privacy in location-based applications. The collection consists of nine chapters that accomplish two key objectives. The first four chapters... more
Privacy (K.4.1...) | Mar 12 10
Speech and language processing: an introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition
Natural language processing (NLP) is a broad and interesting field of research at the intersection of computer science (CS) and linguistics. It includes many varied practical applications that range... more
Natural Language Processing (I.2.7) | Mar 12 10
Advances in differential evolution
Differential evolution is an evolutionary algorithm for global numerical optimization introduced by Ken Price and Rainer Storn in a series of articles in 1995. The method consists of some main steps, which... more
Optimization (G.1.6) | Mar 11 10
Gnuplot in action: understanding data with graphs
This book is a comprehensive introduction and reference to the open-source data visualization program gnuplot. It covers the whole range of gnuplot’s available capabilities, from simple graphical and file operations to advanced guidelines on data charting. The... more
Mathematics & Statistics (J.2...) | Mar 10 10
Foundations of security analysis and design V: FOSAD 2007/2008/2009 tutorial lectures
This is a compilation of selected tutorial papers from the 2007 to 2009 Foundations of Security Analysis and Design (FOSAD) schools. In the first paper, Escobar, Meadows, and Meseguer describe the Maude-NRL protocol analyzer (Maude-NPA)... more
Security & Protection (C.2.0...) | Mar 10 10
Deploying and troubleshooting Cisco wireless LAN controllers
Is the management of your wireless local area network (LAN) becoming a daunting task due to its perpetual expansion? If your answer is yes and you are using the Cisco line of products, maybe the time has come to deploy wireless LAN controllers... more
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Mar 9 10
Advances in machine learning and data analysis
This is a collection of papers from a large international conference on advances in machine learning and data analysis that was held at the University of California, Berkeley, in October 2008. The papers cover a range of topics on applying machine learning... more
Learning (I.2.6) | Mar 8 10
Salesforce.com secrets of success: best practices for real sales results
Salesforce.com offers software as a service (SaaS). It is subscribed to and hosted off site. This well-written book discusses best practices for utilizing the Salesforce.com system; anyone who adopts it will want to study the implementation lessons... more
Office Automation (H.4.1) | Mar 8 10
Sound capture and processing: practical approaches
This book could also be titled Secrets of an audio programming guru. Tashev provides valuable practical insights by sharing his personal experiences with building, testing, and tuning advanced audio processing algorithms. There are times when... more
Signal Processing (I.5.4...) | Mar 5 10
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