How to coordinate multiple devices to work together as a single application is one of the most important challenges for building a distributed mobile application. Mobile devices play important roles in daily life and ...

Performance of semiautomatic and interactive segmentation(SIS) algorithms are usually evaluated by employing a small number of human operators to segment the images. The human operators typically provide the approximate ...

The knowledge of human mobility is an integral component of several different branches of research and planning, including delay tolerant network routing, cellular network planning, disease prevention, and urban planning. ...

Since 2010, the smart device has become an integral part of people’s daily lives. The popularity of smart devices has increased dramatically. However, as the number of devices owned by an individual user increases, so does ...

Standard tools exist for assessing player experience; however, there are few tools for inducing play experiences. Game researchers without the resources to operationalize an experimental factor of interest as an implemented ...

Plant seed identification is routinely performed for seed certification in seed trade, phytosanitary certification for the import and export of agricultural commodities, and regulatory monitoring, surveillance, and ...

Head-tracked 3D displays can provide a compelling 3D effect, but even small inaccuracies in the calibration of the participant’s viewpoint to the display can disrupt the 3D illusion. We propose a novel interactive procedure ...

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in Canada, claiming thousands of lives each year. Cardiac electrophysiology that studies the electrical activity in the human heart has emerged as an active research field ...

Middleware is an enabling layer that enables developers to build distributed applications on heterogeneous computer systems that are provided by different vendors. Middleware provides to the distributed applications a ...

With the popularity and expansion of Cloud Computing, NoSQL databases (DBs) are becoming the preferred choice of storing data in the Cloud. Because they are highly de-normalized, these DBs tend to store significant amounts ...