Network externalities are the effects on the value of a product that can be ascribed to the presence of a network of users of such product. They play an essential role in the busi...
Giancarlo Succi, Paolo Predonzani, Andrea Valerio,...
Backscatter radio is proposed for sensor networks. In that way, the transmitter for each sensor is simplified to a transistor connected to an antenna and therefore, the cost for ea...
Visual interfaces to computer systems are interactive. The cycle of visual interaction involves both visual perception and action. This paper examines formal models of interactive...
Component-oriented software development is becoming more and more important for the production of large-scale software applications. Today's systems are constructed by combin...
Classic textual question answering (QA) approaches that rely on statistical keyword relevance scoring without exploiting semantic content are useful to a certain extent, but are li...
Nuno Cardoso, Iustin Dornescu, Sven Hartrumpf, Joh...