This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...
Comprehensive data analysis has become indispensable in a variety of domains. OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems tend to perform poorly or even fail when applied to comp...
We introduce BotSwindler, a bait injection system designed to delude and detect crimeware by forcing it to reveal during the exploitation of monitored information. The implementati...
Brian M. Bowen, Pratap V. Prabhu, Vasileios P. Kem...
In this paper we address the problem of unsupervised Web data extraction. We show that unsupervised Web data extraction becomes feasible when supposing pages that are made up of r...
The idea of integrating users into the design and production process is a promising strategy for companies being forced to react to the growing individualization of demand. The us...
Frank Thomas Piller, Petra Schubert, Michael Koch,...