Research and Advances – Page 10 – Communications of the ACM

May 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Balancing At All Loads

"Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication" addresses the problem of selecting code rates to optimize system performance by making the codes rateless.

Emina Soljanin

Computing Applications

servers on each end of an imbalanced seesaw

Apr 1 2022

Welcome

The second Communications Regional Special Section spotlighting European countries and Israel highlights selected research and innovation projects in areas of traditional European CS strengths.

Jessica R. Cauchard, Matthias Jarke, and Nuria Oliver

Computing Applications

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Apr 1 2022

Robotic Process Automation Platform UiPath

The UiPath platform provides core capabilities that make it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate humans' interactions with information systems to perform certain tasks in business processes.

Liliana Dobrica

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

On-Skin Computing

A new generation of wearable devices, so-called epidermal devices modeled after human skin, promises significantly better compatibility with the human body.

Jürgen Steimle

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Internet of Production: Entering Phase Two of Industry 4.0

The Excellence Cluster "Internet of Production," started in 2019, aims at a new level of digital collaboration with data, models, and knowledge in production. The core idea is establishing a "worldwide lab" for cross-domain learning.

Gertrude Kappel, Christian Brecher, Matthias Brockmann, and István Koren

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Toward a Broad AI

AI research and machine learning in particular aims at a new level of AI with considerably enhanced and broader capabilities for skill acquisition and problem solving.

Sepp Hochreiter

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

A Federated Infrastructure for European Data Spaces

The Gaia-X project, with more than 300 members, aims at a federated data architecture that comprises not only data and smart services, but also cloud infrastructure services.

Boris Otto

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Privacy-Preserving AI for Future Networks

Traditional management solutions for telco networks are reaching their limits in dealing with today's complex ecosystem. Novel solutions are required to guarantee strict service requirements and effective resource management.

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Mobile Phone Usage Data for Disaster Response

Mobility data can provide near real-time insights before, during, and after a disaster, when understanding population movements and mobility is important to the efficient provision of aid.

Thomas R. C. Smallwood, Véronique Lefebvre, and Linus Bengtsson

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

On 6G and Trustworthiness

Not only data but physical and virtual objects will be controlled with 6G. This requires addressing trustworthiness of the system and its services at an unprecedented level.

Gerhard P. Fettweis and Holger Boche

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Trends in Computer Science Research within European Countries

European institutes provide major worldwide contributions to research in multiple computer science domains.

Dima Kagan, Michael Fire, and Galit Fuhrmann Alpert

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Partnership on AI, Data, and Robotics

The AI, Data and Robotics Association was founded to strengthen European competitiveness, societal well-being, and environmental sustainability.

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Fenix: A Pan-European Federation of Supercomputing and Cloud e-Infrastructure Services

Six leading European supercomputing centers are harmonizing and federating their e-infrastructure services portfolio with the goal of supporting a variety of science and engineering communities.

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Recommender Systems Under European AI Regulations

With the EU Regulatory Framework for AI, the European Commission aims at introducing the first comprehensive legal framework on AI.

Tommaso Di Noia, Nava Tintarev, Panagiota Fatourou, and Markus Schedl

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

European Leadership in Process Management

We describe process mining's European roots as well as developments in the field, and show how it differs from traditional process management and automation.

Wil Van Der Aalst

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

MobiGuide: Guiding Clinicians and Chronic Patients Anytime, Anywhere

The European MobiGuide project aimed to develop a generic architecture to support chronic patients and their clinicians.

Mor Peleg, Yuval Shahar, and Silvana Quaglini

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

When Software Engineering Meets Quantum Computing

We present highlights of EU-level quantum computing initiatives, argue the need for quantum software engineering, and shed light on possible research directions.

Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue, and Rui Abreu

Computing Applications

binary code in detail of quantum computer illustration

Apr 1 2022

Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region

The trustworthiness of AI systems must be planned, rather than an afterthought.

Stuart E. Middleton, Emmanuel Letouzé, Ali Hossaini, and Adriane Chapman

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Apr 1 2022

Energy Informatics: Key Elements for Tomorrow's Energy System

The transition of energy systems toward renewable sources has led to a strong need for essential contributions from the computer science community to maintain stability and security of supply, particularly for the electric power grid.

Hartmut Schmeck, Antonello Monti, and Veit Hagenmeyer

Computing Applications

Apr 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Exploring Cognitive Bias ‘In the Wild’

The authors of "Cognitive Biases in Software Development" rightly highlight the need for situated studies that examine cognitive bias 'in the wild' during software development activity.

Marian Petre

Computing Applications

programmer in dark room with code projection

Apr 1 2022

Market Segmentation in the Emoji Era

A better understanding and use of unstructured data can improve customer loyalty and relationships for most organizations.

Jorge Fresneda, Jeremy Hui, and Chelsey Hill

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Apr 1 2022

Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence as Pillars of Personalized Learning Models

Personalized learning models can cut student dropout rates, boost student success, improve the integration of online and on-site students, better support teachers in mixed-teaching modalities, enhance accessibility, and more.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

girl with back to digital representation of self

Apr 1 2022

FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation

We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection.

Van-Hoang Nguyen, Kazunari Sugiyama, Preslav Nakov, and Min-Yen Kan

Architecture and Hardware

Apr 1 2022

Cognitive Biases in Software Development

We conducted a two-part field study to examine the extent to which cognitive biases occur, the consequences of these biases on developer behavior, and the practices and tools that developers use to deal with these biases.

Computing Applications

programmer at laptop computer in bright room

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