Different from multi-user database management systems, CSCW system must support group awareness explicitly, namely that participants should perceive the presence of each other dur...
Cultural heritage documentation induces the use of computerized techniques to manage and preserve the information produced. Geographical information systems have proved their pote...
Anne Durand, Pierre Drap, Elise Meyer, Pierre Grus...
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), launched in December 2002, is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education. As a part of this exten...
Byron Marshall, Yiwen Zhang, Hsinchun Chen, Ann M....
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...