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Creating ambient multimedia experience on-demand:
This paper deals with the subject of ambient multimedia, which describes a means of acquiring and distributing multimedia from various sources, at multiple locations, and in multiple forms.
The...
Multimedia Information Systems (H.5.1)
| Jan 5 09
Improving the performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces:
A contribution in the field of assisted computing for motor-impaired individuals, this paper presents experiments and evaluates the results from the use of two systems especially designed...
Assistive Tech ... Disabilities (K.4.2...)
| Jan 5 09
A multiple layer model to compare RNA secondary structures:
Software—Practice & Experience
A multi-level data representation, where each level is associated with a different level of information abstraction, is presented in this paper. This representation is applied to the study of...
Biology And Genetics (J.3...)
| Jan 6 09
Homomorphism preservation theorems:
Journal of the ACM
Model theory is the abstract study of mathematical structures that satisfy axioms stated using a first-order logic. A general question that is investigated in model theory...
Model Theory (F.4.1...)
| Jan 6 09
DCER:
The paper reports the results of a one-day workshop that examined a number of issues involved in setting up a computer science education (CSEd) research data depository to enable data sharing amongst...
Computer Science Education (K.3.2...)
| Jan 6 09
A data integration method for exploring gene regulatory mechanisms:
The problem of understanding the behavior of the constituting components of living beings is of great interest. Many steps forward have been taken in this direction, but most of the “cellular...
Biology And Genetics (J.3...)
| Jan 7 09
Using slice join for efficient evaluation of multi-way joins:
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Developing efficient join processing algorithms is of critical importance because joins are an expensive operation. Multi-way joins can usually be performed more efficiently than...
Query Processing (H.2.4...)
| Jan 7 09
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Protein-protein interactions and networks
Protein-protein interactions take place in almost all physiological processes. Understanding how and which proteins interact is key to understanding diseases and developing drugs for their cure. By...
Life And Medical Sciences (J.3)
| Jan 5 09
Numerical methods for special functions
This wide-ranging work will sit nicely on a library shelf next to other classics [1], and will completely satisfy the typical needs of a scientist or engineer seeking to numerically compute special functions. Several analytical techniques like power series...
General (G.1.0)
| Jan 5 09
Building XNA 2.0 games
Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 2.0 provides a C# framework for the development of Windows and Xbox 360 games. This book, covering version 2.0, appeared just as version 3.0 was released (3.0 also supports game development for the Zune and...
Games (K.8.0...)
| Jan 5 09
A second course in formal languages and automata theory
Bucking the trend to “dumb down” content, to make textbooks more broadly accessible for a first-level course, this book is a very welcome effort to woo interested students back to the joys and challenges of more...
Classes Defined ... Automata (F.4.3...)
| Jan 6 09
Innovation together
This work coincides with Microsoft Corporation marking the tenth anniversary of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), its largest research and development facility outside of the US. The anniversary recognizes through Innovation Day in Beijing that the...
Microsoft Corporation (K.1...)
| Jan 6 09
Pillars of computer science
This festschrift is dedicated to Boris Trakhtenbrot on the occasion of his 85th birthday. It contains a valuable paper by Trakhtenbrot himself, which narrates the work in his thesis (the now-famous theorem of 1950 that validity of first-order...
Mathematical Logic (F.4.1)
| Jan 6 09
Sets, logic and maths for computing
According to the author, the purpose of this book is:
[T]o provide the basics--the essentials that you need to know to understand the mathematical language that is used in computer and information science...
Discrete Mathematics (G.2)
| Jan 7 09
Data visualization
Many application packages and programming languages provide some graphic capabilities to view results of data processing. Often enough, this is for standard needs, but data visualization is something more, and Telea’s book proves it: data...
User Interfaces (H.5.2)
| Jan 7 09
The last lecture
In his last lecture, Randy Pausch--a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University--delivers a powerful, inspirational message. This phenomenal work captures his childhood dreams, how he...
General (A.0)
| Jan 7 09
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