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2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
FireWxNet: a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Design and evaluation of a computer science and engineering course for middle school girls
A significant focus in the United States recently has been to increase engagement and interest in STEM curricula, particularly among girls and underrepresented minorities [3]. In ...
Gabriela Marcu, Samuel J. Kaufman, Jaihee Kate Lee...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Web Science 2.0: Identifying Trends through Semantic Social Network Analysis
—We introduce a novel set of social network analysis based algorithms for mining the Web, blogs, and online forums to identify trends and find the people launching these new tren...
Peter A. Gloor, Jonas Krauss, Stefan Nann, Kai Fis...
GROUP
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics
To improve existing social bookmarking systems and to design new ones, researchers and practitioners need to understand how to evaluate tagging behavior. In this paper, we analyze...
Umer Farooq, Thomas George Kannampallil, Yang Song...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Analysis of input-dependent program behavior using active profiling
Utility programs, which perform similar and largely independent operations on a sequence of inputs, include such common applications as compilers, interpreters, and document parse...
Xipeng Shen, Michael L. Scott, Chengliang Zhang, S...