Context aware systems are a promising approach to facilitate dailylife activities. Concerning communication services, business users may be sometimes overloaded with work so that they become temporally unable to handle incoming communications. After having surveyed the challenges to build context-aware systems, we introduce here HEP, a system that recommends communication services to the caller...

POST is a decentralized messaging infrastructure that supports a wide range of collaborative applications, including electronic mail, instant messaging, chat, news, shared calendars and whiteboards. POST is highly resilient, secure, scalable and does not rely on dedicated servers. Instead, POST is built upon a peer-to-peer (p2p) overlay network, consisting of participants’ desktop computers. PO...

In this paper, a variety of potentially explanatory indicators for child labor and school attendance in Zambia is scrutinized. By analyzing the results from a bivariate probit model, the arising doubt with regard to the income sensitivity of the child labor choice is confirmed. Among other factors, community effects influence the child labor and schooling choice. Based on the results, sensitiza...

Crop calendars provide valuable information on the timing of important stages crop development such as planting or Start Season (SOS) and harvesting dates End (EOS). This is critical for many monitoring applications crop-type mapping, condition monitoring, yield estimation forecasting. Spatially detailed provides an asset in this respect, it allows algorithms to account specific local circumsta...

In practice, most projects result in cost overruns and schedule slippage due to poor resource management. This paper presents an approach that aims at reducing project duration and costs by empowering project managers to assess different scenarios. The proposed approach addresses combinatorial modes for tasks, multi-skilled resources, and multiple calendars for resources. A case study reported ...

A modification of the health contract technique was applied by 4 geriatric fellows from the Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, and 3 family medicine residents from the Department of Family Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, to a diverse group of 48 older adults. The innovation, a calendar component to the health contract, allowed for the calculation of specific succ...

Figure 1 shows the front side of the booth on the very last day, August 13, 2015, when Augustus Jayaraj joined Cheon-Sig Lee and Sarjinder Singh with 40 elephants. There were already 100 monkeys of different colors, 100 female giraffes, 100 male giraffes, and 100 spidermen. There were also three dozen flashing balls and 100 tiny bears. For the first three days, these toys were given freely to t...