Structural concepts, like abstract syntax trees (ASTs), are often best explained through visual representations. Students seem to have little trouble understanding what is presented to them visually, but they find it harder ...

An ever-increasing amount of sensitive patient data is shared between healthcare institutions. The data is strictly personal and the consequences of unintentional disclosure are severe. Recordkeeping systems embedded in ...

Insurance coverages for marine shipping fleets are often created by a broker, who negotiates underwriter insurance offers on behalf of the fleet owner. The broker evaluates different combinations of offers, searching for ...

Identity theft in online banking can cause significant economic and psychological damage to the victims. Traditionally, there has been a strong focus on detecting and hindering fraud, but not nearly as much focus on any ...

The Internet is giving people many opportunities to interact, but for latency-sensitive activities, there is still room for improvement. It is not always good enough that messages arrive; some times they should arrive ...

Linear MIM-width, and its generalization MIM-width, is a graph width parameter that has become noted for having bounded value on several important graph classes, e.g. interval graphs and permutation graphs. The linear ...

Preference aggregation is the process of combining multiple preferences orders into one global ranking. The top-ranked alternative is called the winner. Many aggregation methods have been considered in the literature. Some ...