The Internet has made it possible, in principle, for scientists to quickly find research papers of interest. In practice, the overwhelming volume of publications makes this a time consuming task. It is, therefore, important ...

Mobile devices, like smart phones or tablets, have become ubiquitous, with their adoption being driven by their immediacy and sensing capabilities. Applications, or apps, that run on portable computing devices have surged ...

Open source projects have been continuously growing in popularity. As a result, a number of open source projects begin to play an important role in current software development. In practice, limited assistance has been ...

As huge amounts of data are created rapidly, the demand for the integration and analysis of such data has been growing steadily. It is especially essential to retrieve relevant and accurate evidence in healthcare and ...

As open source software repositories have been enormously growing, the high quality source codes have been widely available. A greater access to open source software also leads to an increase of software quality and reduces ...

The Linked Data Movement is aimed at converting unstructured and semi-structured data on the documents to semantically connected documents called the "web of data." This is based on Resource Description Framework (RDF) ...

Computer interfaces are rapidly evolving beyond the traditional keyboard-mouse-monitor triad. The widespread availability of touch screens and voice recognition software has made it possible to execute commands in many ...

Due to rapid exponential growth in data, a couple of challenges we face today are how to handle big data and analyze large data sets. An IBM study showed the amount of data created in the last two years alone is 90% of the ...

The recruitment of human subjects for clinical trials research is a critically important step in the discovery of new cures for diseases. Volunteers are subjected to an elaborate questionnaire process in current recruitment ...

There has been tremendous interest in sharing and retrieving information through the Web. A search engine can be used to retrieve relevant web documents. However, the sheer volume of results returned often requires ...

Social networking has turned into an integral constituent in our lives. There appears to be an imperative demand for finding and linking with others to share one's day-to-day activities. However, currently available ...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a popular paradigm for designing distributed systems where loosely coupled services (i.e. computational entities) can be integrated seamlessly to provide complex composite ...

In today's world, there is a tremendous increase in the usage of sensor technology in several fields including agriculture, medicine, and weather. Sensors either in-site or remotely placed are usually deployed in the form ...

Open source software is quite ubiquitous and caters to most common software needs developers come across. Many open source projects are considered better than their commercial equivalents as a larger pool of developers ...

The open source code base has increased enormously and hence understanding the functionality of the projects has become extremely difficult. The existing approaches of feature discovery that aim to identify functionality ...

With the increasing popularity and affordability of smartphones, there is a high demand to add machine-learning engines to smartphones. However, Machine Learning with smartphones is typically not feasible due to the heavy ...

In the era of big data, it is essential to explore the opportunities in discovering knowledge from big data. However, traditional machine learning approaches are not well fit to analyze the full value of big data. ...

Building energy awareness and providing feedback on energy use is a vital component in transforming the behavior of individuals and communities towards a more efficient use of electric power. An enormous amount of energy ...

Activity Recognition (AR) is an important research topic in pervasive computing. With the rapid increase in the use of pervasive devices, huge sensor data is generated from diverse devices on a daily basis. Analysis of the ...

In the current data movement, numerous efforts have been made to convert and normalize a large number of traditionally structured and unstructured data to semi-structured data (e.g., RDF, OWL). With the increasing number ...