I was attracted by computers when I was a kid. Until now, typing codes into a computer is still my favorite activity I relax myself each day. I always keep on doing that after getting some new ideas. In short, the most exciting life to me is to think about new ideas and implement them. In 2000, the year I came to Arizona State University, the Internet bubble was still existed. I am one of the p...

But the Commission is now finalising the latest phase of its funding plans – Framework 6 – which will come into action later this year with radical plans to beef-up the scale and scope of its support of projects that can be seen to be fostering world-class collaborative research. Many universities may need to reassess the scale and scope of their research efforts if they are to win a share of t...

Tags have been compared to controlled vocabulary terms and have been suggested as replacements or enhancements in indexing. This paper explores tagging and controlled vocabulary studies in the context of studies examining title and author keywords or user search terms and uses the results to analyse 236000 PubMed records tagged in CiteULike. Résumé : Les étiquettes ont été comparées avec les ve...

My research interests and activities over the past six years have mainly centered around three areas: Databases, Middleware for Distributed and Mobile Applications, and Hybrid Intelligent Systems and its Applications. In addition to these research areas, I was also actively involved in a NSF funded "Digital Library" project that created a central repository of educational materials for Computer...

In this column, the support for advancing normal birth is summarized, based on a comparison of the goals of Healthy People 2010, Lamaze International, the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, and the midwifery model of care. Research abstracts are presented to provide evidence that the midwifery model of care safely and economically advances normal birth. Rates of intervention experience...

I tend to wax poetic about my research. Generally, I like to have background material summarized for me, and so I do the same here. If you are interested only in the results and problems I consider, or only those problems in a particular section, please feel free to skip around all of my theorems are clearly labelled as such, and I have a section at the end of the work for future problems I wis...