This paper describes a model-driven decision-support system (software tool) implementing a model-based methodology for on-line leakage detection and localization which is useful for a large class of water distribution ...

Revenue Management is concerned with demand-management decisions and the methodology and systems required to make them. It is widely used in airline industry and hotel industry. This project introduces the concept and ...

Assigning papers to reviewers is a large, long and difficult task for conference chairs and scientific committees. The paper reviewer assignment problem is a multi-agent problem which requires understanding reviewer expertise ...

A control mechanism for dealing with NL processing is presented. The mechanism is implemented in a Natural Language Understanding System developed in the last years. In our approach, control is handled at two abstraction ...

Building processors with large instruction windows has been proposed as a mechanism for overcoming the memory wall, but finding a feasible and implementable design has been an elusive goal. Traditional processors are ...

Heterogeneous Databases are becoming increasingly important, but they present several problems. We consider the problem of semantic heterogeneity and show that a deductive model is suita.ble for coping with the problem. ...

Malaria is an endemic life-threating disease caused by the unicellular protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. Confirming the presence of parasites early in all malaria cases ensures species-specific antimalarial ...

Scarcity in wildland fire progression data as well as considerable uncertainties in forecasts demand improved methods to monitor fire spread in real time. However, there exists at present no scalable solution to acquire ...

Mobile applications are worldwide extended. We use them for everything, from texting friends to managing our money. This boom has led to the emergence of companies dedicated exclusively to the development of mobile ...