Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
Supply chains are a central element of today’s global economy. Existing management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global compet...
Michael Benisch, Alberto Sardinha, James Andrews, ...
Retrospective news event detection (RED) is defined as the discovery of previously unidentified events in historical news corpus. Although both the contents and time information...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
As multimedia becomes an integral part of collaborative systems, we must understand how to design such systems to support users’ rich set of existing interaction skills, rather ...