For a spatial database management system, it is an important goal to minimize the I/O-cost of queries and other operations. Several page-replacement strategies have been proposed a...
When experts participate in collaborative systems, tension may arise between them and novice contributors. In particular, when experts perceive novices as a bother or a threat, th...
This paper explores how homeless young people, aged 1325, make use of information systems in daily life. Observed in a community technology center, four different examples of uses...
Data-driven P2P streaming systems can potentially provide good playback rate to a large number of viewers. One important design problem in such P2P systems is to determine the opt...
— We present a novel observer design for a class of single-output nonlinear systems with Markov jumps. The Markov jump process interferes with a deterministic nonlinear dynamics ...