We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems ar...
In this paper we consider the problem of searching for a node or an object (i.e., piece of data, file, etc.) in a large network. Applications of this problem include searching fo...
—With the development of on-line forum technology and the pervasive participation of the public, the Human Flesh Search is becoming an arising phenomenon which makes a great impa...
Entity information management (EIM) is a nascent IR research area that investigates the information management process about entities instead of documents. It is motivated by the ...
We develop a network of distributed mobile sensor systems as a solution to the emergency response problem. The mobile sensors are inside a building and they form a connected ad-ho...
George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh, Ronald A. Peterson, D...