In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...
ToonTalkTM is a general-purpose concurrent programming system in which the source code is animated and the programming environment is like a me. Every abstract computational aspec...
Many people believe that emotions and subjective feelings are one and the same and that a goal of human-centered computing is emotion recognition. The first belief is outdated; the...
Attentive vision is characterized by selective sensing in space and time as well as selective processing with respect to a specic task. Selection in space involves the splitting ...
An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...