Motivation – This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research...
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSN) built using current Berkeley Mica motes exhibit low reliability for packet delivery. There is anecdotal evidence of poor packet delivery rates fro...
JunSuk Shin, Umakishore Ramachandran, Mostafa H. A...
Boosted by technology advancements, government and commercial interest, ad-hoc wireless networks are emerging as a serious platform for distributed mission-critical applications. G...