—This paper investigates a slotted random access system where packet capture is modeled using communication theoretic techniques. It is shown that the optimum rates and attempt p...
As the amount of available electronic information is dramatically increasing, the ability for rapid and e ective access to information has become critical. Most traditional inform...
This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet...
Abstract. In this paper we propose the clustering of top-ranking sentences (TRS) for effective information access. Top-ranking sentences are selected by a query-biased sentence ex...
Many types of information available in a pervasive computing environment, such as people location information, should be accessible only by a limited set of people. Some propertie...