The primary objective of this paper was to examine the extent to which Gutman’s Means-End Chain Model can be used to describe the influences given to the choice of characteristi...
In this paper, we present parallel multilevel algorithms for the hypergraph partitioning problem. In particular, we describe schemes for parallel coarsening, parallel greedy k-way...
Strategic Business and IT Alignment (SBITA) is still ranked amongst the top concerns of the enterprise’s management executives. Such alignment is an organization-wide issue that...
Leonel Plazaola, Johnny Flores, Norman Vargas, Mat...
The process of labeling each word in a sentence with one of its lexical categories (noun, verb, etc) is called tagging and is a key step in parsing and many other language processi...
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...