As enormous amount of electronic documents on the Web have been increasing, the necessity of automatic summarization has also been increasing to help people grasp the essential points of the documents. Many summarization techniques dealing with single document and multi-documents have been studied. However, due to the increase of the documents which report the change of topics along a timeline,...

Timeline-based editing provides nonprofessional users an intuitive and friendly way for multimedia authoring, but the schedule-based and deterministic property of timeline results in the lack of the ability for supporting non-deterministic temporal behavior, which is one of the key features of SMIL2.0. This paper presents our elaborate effort of supporting non-deterministic temporal behavior by...

The timing of human evolution can be inferred from DNA sequence comparisons, but this requires an accurate estimate of the mutation rate. While recent data suggested a lower rate and a longer timeline, a new study reinstates the previous timeline.

Since the 1950s, researchers have recognized that red blood cell numbers expand or contract as needed, according to the amount of available oxygen. The later discoveries that erythropoietin and VEGF levels adapt to oxygen levels launched a new field aimed at understanding how cells sense and respond to normal- and low-oxygen environments. The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award reco...

Faced with thousands of news articles, people usually try to ask the general aspects such as the beginning, the evolutionary pattern and the end. General search engines simply return the top ranking articles according to query relevance and fail to trace how a specific event goes. General search engines simply return the top ranking articles according to query relevance and fail to trace how a ...