The computational world is becoming very large and complex. Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm of computing and also has gained attention from both academic and business community. Its utility-based usage model allows users to pay per use, similar to other public utility such as electricity, with relatively low investment on the end devices that access the cloud computing resources. ...

This position paper supports the idea of the information dialog between IR systems and users during an information search task. In order to satisfy the communication and interaction needs of humans, IR systems should explicitly support the cognitive abilities of the users. An information dialogue which does not only support an individual query but also the complete search process is necessary. ...

Unlike a traditional information system serving just as a storehouse of data or knowledge and working passively according to queries or transactions explicitly issued by users and application programs, an autonomous evolutionary information system serves as an autonomous and evolutionary partner of its users that discovers new knowledge from its database or knowledge-base autonomously, cooperat...

Aggregate signature scheme proposed by Boneh, Gentry, Lynn, and Shacham allows n signatures on n distinct messages from n distinct users to aggregate a single signature that convince any verifier that n users did indeed sign the n messages, respectively. The main benefit of such schemes is that they allow bandwidth and computational savings. In this paper, we question about whether the existing...

In the last years, XAI research has mainly been concerned with developing new technical approaches to explain deep learning models. Just recent started acknowledge need tailor explanations different contexts and requirements of stakeholders. Explanations must not only suit developers models, but also domain experts as well end users. Thus, in order satisfy stakeholders, explanation methods be c...

Web-based, consumer-centric electronic medical records (CEMRs) are currently undergoing widespread deployment. Existing CEMRs, however, have limited intelligence and cannot satisfy users' many needs. This paper proposes the concept of intelligent CEMR. We introduce and extend expert system and web search technology into the CEMR domain. The resulting intelligent CEMRs can automatically provide ...

Current telephone systems suuer from a service interface bottleneck problem, wherein network resources are under-utilised and customer requirements are often not met, in spite of these resources' ability to satisfy such requirements. This bottleneck is primarily due to a coarse-grain service interface, coupled with the inability to support arbitrary terminal types, and the inability to inter-op...