Seam Carving For Media Retargeting
Traditional image resizing techniques are oblivious to the content of the image when changing its width or height. In contrast, media (i.e., image and video) retargeting takes content into account.
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Technical Perspective: Finding and Telling Stories with Data
Visual analysis, a powerful method for finding and telling stories with data, is moving from research into widespread use.
Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Visualization
This article describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces.
Automating Commonsense Reasoning Using the Event Calculus
Commonsense reasoning is the human ability to make inferences about properties and events in the everyday world. The automation of commonsense reasoning, long a goal of the field of artificial intelligence3 and an area of active research in the last decade,8 is attaining a level of maturity. Automating commonsense reasoning allows us to build applications […]
Active Citizen Participation Using ICT Tools
Information technology has the potential to profoundly affect democracy and civic discourse through active citizen participation.
Understanding the Adopters and Non-Adopters of Broadband
Despite policy level mandates by some Governments to motivate gains in broadband diffusion, rates and levels of support differ greatly. Such policy decisions appear now to be contributing towards a digital divide.
Improved Security Through Information Security Governance
Within the modern, hyper-connected business landscape, organizations are constantly under attack. According to the 2005 Computer Crime and Security Survey, conducted jointly by the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the San Francisco Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 56% of respondents reported unauthorized computer system use during the past year.2 These unauthorized uses […]
Exploring the Black Box of Task-Technology Fit
As professionals, such as knowledge workers and managers increasingly perform tasks outside of traditional office environments, mobile technology often provides critical support, in particular to mid-level executives, project managers, company and sales representatives, and field service workers.4 Nevertheless, the requirements for the development and use of mobile information systems to support mobile professionals are not […]
Disaster Response in Health Care: A Design Extension For Enterprise Data Warehouse
August 29, 2005. Hurricane katrina made landfall and caused catastrophic damage along the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana killing at least 1,836 people.12 Nearly 80% of the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas were ravaged. Katrina is estimated to be responsible for more than $80 billion in damages, making it the costliest hurricane […]
The Relationship Between Software Development Team Size and Software Development Cost
Most of the Software development cost is related to the programmers’ salaries and recent evidence shows that team-related factors can affect project performance and its cost.10,12 Selecting an appropriate team size for software development projects continues to be a challenge for most project managers. Larger teams represent better distribution of skills, but lead to higher […]
Why Ebay Lost to Taobao in China: The Glocal Advantage
How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer-seller communication channels.
Open Information Extraction from the Web
Targeted IE methods are transforming into open-ended techniques.
Breaking the Memory Wall in MonetDB
In this paper, we report how research around the MonetDB database system has led to a redesign of database architecture in order to take advantage of modern hardware, and in particular to avoid hitting the memory wall.
Exterminator: Automatically Correcting Memory Errors with High Probability
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. We present Exterminator, a system that automatically corrects heap-based memory errors without programmer intervention.
Got Data? A Guide to Data Preservation in the Information Age
Tools for surviving a data deluge to ensure your data will be there when you need it.
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
How ontologies provide the semantics, as explained here with the help of Harry Potter and his owl Hedwig.
Technical Perspective: One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
Beginning in the early to mid-1980s the relational model of data has dominated the DBMS landscape. Moreover, descendents of the early relational prototypes have become the primary commercial relational DBMSs. As such, the basic architecture sold by the commercial vendors is more than two decades old.
Technical Perspective: Patching Program Errors
C programmers are are all too familiar with out-of-bounds memory errors. The paper here presents an intriguing technique for automatically isolating and correcting these errors.
Enhancing Business Performance via Vendor Managed Inventory Applications
Modern Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) connect companies in new and novel ways and, as a result, allow them to develop new competencies for competing successfully. ICTs make it possible for companies to collaborate on the design of new products and services, configure new sales and distribution channels, and efficiently replenish those channels to reduce […]
A Framework of ICT Exploitation For E-Participation Initiatives
Governments around the world are tapping on the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform the public sector, a phenomenon broadly known as e-government. Deployment of ICT in government is expected to improve internal efficiency and provide citizens with better information and services. The increasing interest in e-government is evident in the rising […]
Evolving Innovations Through Design and Use
Design and development of an innovative system does not end with delivery and installation of the software product. Nor is innovation facilitated by system maintenance focused on “bug fixes.” Rather it requires recognizing how users innovate around system dysfunctionalities. It requires designers to go “native,” as if they were an applied anthropologist, and understand how […]
Two Approaches to an Information Security Laboratory
Hands-on course work plays an important role in information security education. Through such course work, students can apply, deepen, and extend the conceptual knowledge taught in more theory-oriented lectures. Moreover, they can acquire experience with, and an understanding of, realistic systems, which is particularly important in Information Security. Hands-on experience shows how often a system’s […]
Opening Up to Agile Games Development
In fast-paced business environments like computer games, Agile would seem to be the appropriate style of software development. However, our study of three computer game studios revealed that game development does not deploy Agile methods as such, but rather it shares some of Agile’s practices and values. We were intrigued by how agility was triggered […]
Worst Practices in Search Engine Optimization
Many online companies have become aware of the importance of ranking well in the search engines. A recent article reveals that 62% of search engine users click only on results that appear on the first search engine results page (SERP) and less than 10% of users click on results that appear after the third page.3 […]
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