In distributed work systems, individual users perform work for other users. A significant challenge in these systems is to provide proper incentives for users to contribute as muc...
— A new call admission control (CAC) strategy based on the soft capacity constraint (SCC) concept is proposed for CDMA cellular systems. The use of the SCC concept allows maximiz...
In this paper we present a framework to provide dependability through accountability. Our proposal exploits the asymmetry present in the majority of sensor data processing to chea...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
Recently, question series have become one focus of research in question answering. These series are comprised of individual factoid, list, and “other” questions organized arou...