Computer and information sciences topic list of research papers
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Jass — Java with Assertions1 1This work was partially funded by the German Research Council (DFG) under grant OL 98/3-1.
Abstract Design by Contract, proposed by Meyer for the programming language Eiffel, is a technique that allows run-time checks of specification violation and their treatment during program execution. Jass, Java with assertions, is a Design by...
2004 / Detlef Bartetzko, Clemens Fischer, Michael Möller, Heike Wehrheim -
Agile ETL
Abstract Agile ETL is a tool for technicians working in the area of business intelligence, which facilitates consolidation of information in a central repository called data warehouse. Mechanisms have been established to create, control and...
2014 / Cristiano Xavier, Fernando Moreira -
Elderly Centered Design for Interaction – The Case of the S4S Medication Assistant
Abstract Several aspects of older adults’ life can benefit from recent technological developments, but success in harnessing this potential depends on careful design and accessible, easy to use products. Design and development must be centered on...
2014 / Flávio Ferreira, Nuno Almeida, Ana Filipa Rosa, André Oliveira, José Casimiro, et al. -
Offline Signature Verification Using Pixel Matching Technique
Abstract Biometrics (or biometric authentication) refers to the process of identification of humans by their characteristics or traits. Biometrics is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control which is one of the most...
2014 / Indrajit Bhattacharya, Prabir Ghosh, Swarup Biswas -
Quality Measurements for Association Rules Hiding
Abstract Data mining technologies are widely used and help people to make good decision and good money since appeared. While at the same time, the side effects incurred are concerned by data holders and researchers. Some information extracted from...
2013 / Hui Wang -
Consent in Forensic Genetics as a Tool for Learning Human Rights
Abstract Informed consent is an ethical and legal requirement in research involving human beings. It includes the expression of the subject's autonomy upon the donation of biological material. The authors had previously recognized the high level of...
2014 / Fabiola de Sampaio R.G. Garrido, Helder Marcos Nunes Candido, Rodrigo Grazinoli Garrido -
Kaizen-educational: An Awareness-raising and Motivational-enhancement Group Counseling Model
Abstract Kaizen-Educational (Kaizen-Ed) is a structured group counseling model that offers both the opportunity to increase self- awareness in terms of strengths and weaknesses analysis through peer and self-evaluations and collaborative group...
2013 / Cemrenur Topuz, Zeynep Arasan -
Portable Interface and Local Service Manager
Abstract The world demographic projections showed a rise of the elderly population as result of the increase in life expectancy. To check all the possible assistance to the elderly to live this new stage with dignity, autonomy, self-reliance,...
2014 / Pedro Miguel Rodrigues, Diamantino Rui Freitas, Joaquim Gabriel -
Investigation of Features for User's Emotional State Control Using Virtual Character
Abstract Virtual environments and virtual characters become a part of daily life in human society. This phenomenon gives additional advantages in such fields as distance learning or distance communication, but the same technologies can bring burden...
2013 / Egidijus Vaškevičius, Edvinas Bazevičius, Aušra Vidugirienė, Vytautas Kaminskas -
An Analytic Workbench Perspective to Evolution of System of Systems Architectures
Abstract The development of a large group of interdependently operating systems, or ‘System of Systems (SoS)’, presents significant challenges across technical, operational and programmatic dimensions. Trades between cost, schedule, performance, and ...
2014 / Navindran Davendralingam, Daniel DeLaurentis, Zhemei Fang, Cesare Guariniello, Seung Yeob Han, et al. -
CN-Nets for Modeling and Analyzing Neural Networks
Abstract The concept of colored timed neural Petri nets (CTNPN or Shortly CN-net) which are isomorphic to neural architectures is proposed. The CN-net technique incorporates the basic features of the neural net and the modeling capabilities of both...
2013 / Samir M. Koriem -
Key-hiding on the ARM platform
Abstract To combat the problem of encryption key recovery from main memory using cold boot-attacks, various solutions has been suggested, but most of these have been implemented on the x86 architecture, which is not prevalent in the smartphone...
2014 / Alexander Nilsson, Marcus Andersson, Stefan Axelsson -
Progress towards Automated Kepler Scientific Workflows for Computer-aided Drug Discovery and Molecular Simulations
Abstract We describe the development of automated workflows that support computed-aided drug discovery (CADD) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and are included as part of the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR). The main workflow...
2014 / Pek U. Ieong, Jesper Sørensen, Prasantha L. Vemu, Celia W. Wong, Özlem Demir, et al. -
Glottal Stop in Hiatus: An Acoustic Investigation in Persian
Abstract One of the strategies to resolve hiatus in Persian is glottal stop (GS) insertion between two adjacent vowels (Sadeghi, 2001: 27, 28) [1]. This paper investigates the presence of GS in hiatus within and across morpheme boundaries in...
2014 / Samaneh Yazarlou -
Data, DIKW, Big Data and Data Science
Abstract In this paper we discuss the relationship between data and DIKW, that the data only evolves to knowledge, which may have some value, but if without the wisdom we still could let the knowledge be really useful to people. Now the big data...
2014 / Gu Jifa, Zhang Lingling -
Putting “Human Crowds” in the Loop of Bibliography Evaluation: A Collaborative Working Environment for CSCW Publications
Abstract The current impact of financial crisis on societal and scientific frameworks has raised the need to harvest and evaluate vast volumes of data in a socially-mediated interaction context to reduce knowledge gaps and accelerate innovation at a ...
2014 / António Correia, Jorge Santos, Diogo Azevedo, Hugo Paredes, Benjamim Fonseca -
Centralized Micro-clouds: An Infrastructure for Service Distribution in Collaborative Smart Devices
Abstract In the current information-driven society, the massive use and impact of communications and mobile devices challenge the design of communication networks. This highlights the emergency of a new Internet structure namely the Internet of...
2013 / Eleana Asimakopoulou, Stelios Sotiriadis, Nik Bessis, Ciprian Dobre, Valentin Cristea -
Enhancing Coverage Ratio Using Mobility in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network
Abstract In the lifespan of the sensor network, coverage, localization, reliability and lifetime (when the final sensor dies) are the major design challenges for which the work is still going on. Especially in heterogeneous wireless sensor network,...
2014 / Durga Pavan Nudurupati, Rajat Kumar Singh -
Window Size Impact in Human Activity Recognition2014 / Oresti Banos, Juan-Manuel Galvez, Miguel Damas, Hector Pomares, Ignacio Rojas
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Odometry for Ground Moving Agents by Optic Flow Recorded with Optical Mouse Chips2014 / Hansjürgen Dahmen, Hanspeter Mallot