Easy-to-use audio/video authoring tools play a crucial role in moving multimedia software from research curiosity to mainstream applications. However, research in multimedia author...
Abstract: Since von Neumann's seminal work around 1950, computer scientists and others have studied the algorithms needed to support self-replicating systems. Much of this wor...
During the last ten years the approach to business management has deeply changed, and companies have understood the importance of enforcing achievement of the goals defined by the...
Abstract. Virtual professional communities require a strong coevolution of their social and information systems. To ensure that the evolutionary process of their socio-technical sy...
Turbulence is in the nature of business environments. Changes brought about because of different requirements such as social, political, technical and economic, exert pressures on ...