With increased demand for storage of scientific data comes a corresponding demand for efficient retrieval mechanisms necessary for analytical and reporting purposes. As is often...
—Multi-core technology is becoming the mainstream of processor architecture. It is a great challenge for universities to offer students new theories because of the continuous cha...
As communications systems increasingly gather and propagate information about people’s reachability or “presence”, users need better tools to minimize undesired interruption...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
A recent trend in interface design for classrooms in developing regions has many students interacting on the same display using mice. Text entry has emerged as an important proble...