Grid computing environments with abundant resources can support innovative e-Learning applications, and are promising platforms for e-Learning. To support individualized and adaptive learning, teachers are encouraged to develop various teaching materials according to different requirements. However, traditional methodologies for designing teaching materials are time-consuming. To speed up the d...

This is an article for IEEE Computer which explains the rationale for ANSA; the principles that underpin the architecture and uses a simple telecommunications oriented scenario to explore the architectural framework. It is an amalgam of APM.1000 and the author’s 1993 TINA Conference Keynote address.. An Overview of ANSA (for IEEE Network)

— Modern engineered materials, components and systems depend on raw materials whose properties provide essential functionality to these technologies. Some of these raw materials are subject to supply-chain risks, and such materials are known as critical materials. This paper reviews corporate, national and world perspectives on material criticality. It then narrows its focus to studies that ass...

A major part of Einstein’s 1905 light quantum paper is devoted to arguing that high frequency heat radiation bears the characteristic signature of a microscopic energy distribution of independent, spatially localized components. The content of his light quantum proposal was precarious in that it contradicted the great achievement of nineteenth century physics, the wave theory of light and its a...

In this paper we present an approach for stroke-input based foreground estimation of measured materials with a near regular structure. To enable extraction of high-quality editing masks even from difficult materials, we combine a state of the art lattice-detection algorithm with a novel frequency convolution scheme, which we call pushpins. Despite being highly specialized, we consider this use-...