How do you tell a computer from a human? The situation arises often on the Internet, when online polls are conducted, accounts are requested, undesired email is received, and chat...
Patrice Y. Simard, Richard Szeliski, Josh Benaloh,...
While systems supporting communities of practice in work organizations have been shown to be desirable many, if not all, are decoupled from daily work practices and tools. This hi...
The Internet can be used to solve pedagogical problems. To give an example, seminars for crowded courses exceeding a hundred participants would not be possible without web-based a...
Background: Bio-ontologies are key elements of knowledge management in bioinformatics. Rich and rigorous bio-ontologies should represent biological knowledge with high fidelity an...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...