Operating system abstractions do not always reach high enough for direct use by a language or applications designer. The gap is filled by application-specific runtime environments. Typical arguments f...
Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10%--from 69.7 to 76.5 years- and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly ...
"Multi Perspective Enterprise Modelling" (MEMO) is a method to support the development of enterprise models. It suggests a number of abstractions which allow to analyse and design various interrelated...
Making RFID tags as ubiquitous as barcodes will enable machines to see and recognize any tagged object in their vicinity, better than they ever could with the smartest image processing algorithms. Thi...