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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Homebrew databases: complexities of everyday information management in nonprofit organizations
Many people manage a complex assortment of digital information in their lives. Volunteer coordinators at nonprofit organizations are no exception; they collectively manage informa...
Amy Voida, Ellie Harmon, Ban Al-Ani
HCI
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Speech Input from Older Users in Smart Environments: Challenges and Perspectives
Abstract. Although older people are an important user group for smart environments, there has been relatively little work on adapting natural language interfaces to their requireme...
Ravichander Vipperla, Maria Wolters, Kallirroi Geo...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Effective keyword search in relational databases
With the amount of available text data in relational databases growing rapidly, the need for ordinary users to search such information is dramatically increasing. Even though the ...
Fang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng, Abdur Chowdhu...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A community-aware search engine
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
Rodrigo B. Almeida, Virgílio A. F. Almeida
ALT
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Pure Exploration in Multi-armed Bandits Problems
Abstract. We consider the framework of stochastic multi-armed bandit problems and study the possibilities and limitations of strategies that explore sequentially the arms. The stra...
Sébastien Bubeck, Rémi Munos, Gilles...