• accelerating growth of information and resources on the Web, and increasing heterogeneity (both in technological aspects such as representation and media, and in nontechnical aspects such as socio-cultural aspects) • recognition on the part of not just the researchers but also practitioners and companies that syntactic and statistical solutions near the limit in effectiveness in dealing with ...

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the developed countries and increasing average longevity globally, optimisation issues in Healthcare have become noticeably important and attract keen interest from the Operations Research community. Over the years, attention ...

We present a structured literature survey of User Experience (UX) dimensions and influencing factors in authentication research. The survey is based on authentication papers presented between 2010 and 2015 on the major human-computer interaction (HCI) and usable privacy and security (UPS) venues. 19% of the found papers include UX topics. Those papers show that there is a variety of ways how au...

Although there has been a fair amount of research in the area of school timetabling, this domain has not developed as well as other fields of educational timetabling such as university course and examination timetabling. This can possibly be attributed to the fact that the studies in this domain have generally been conducted in isolation of each other and have addressed different school timetab...

During the nineties of the last century, historians and computer scientists created together a research agenda around the life cycle of historical information. It comprised the tasks of creation, design, enrichment, editing, retrieval, analysis and presentation of historical information with help of information technology. They also identified a number of problems and challenges in this field, ...

Network forensics is the science that deals with capture, recording, and analysis of network traffic for detecting intrusions and investigating them. This paper makes an exhaustive survey of various network forensic frameworks proposed till date. A generic process model for network forensics is proposed which is built on various existing models of digital forensics. Definition, categorization a...

Workflow technologies are emerging as the dominant approach to coordinate groups of distributed services. However with a space filled with competing specifications, standards and frameworks from multiple domains, choosing the right tool for the job is not always a straightforward task. Researchers are often unaware of the range of technology that already exists and focus on implementing yet ano...

Motivation In policy-relevant and applied research in international development, the evidence-based turn has led to increasing donor demand for evidence that is neutral, objective value-free. Rather than this positivist understanding, article argues reflexivity acknowledgement of positionality help overcome potential researcher effects. Purpose Drawing on example survey South Sudan, social rela...