Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
The hierarchical generalized Voronoi graph (HGVG) is a new roadmap developed for sensor-based exploration in unknown environments. This paper defines the HGVG structure: a robot c...
This paper shows that the accuracy of learned text classifiers can be improved by augmenting a small number of labeled training documents with a large pool of unlabeled documents. ...
Kamal Nigam, Andrew McCallum, Sebastian Thrun, Tom...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
This paper presents a study of web content adaptation to improve server overload performance, as well as an implementation of a web content adaptation software prototype. When the...