A number of researchers have become interested in the design of global-scale networked systems and applications. Our thesis here is that the database community's principles a...
Though physical sensing instruments have long been used in astronomy, biology, and civil engineering, the recent emergence of wireless sensor networks and RFID has spurred a renai...
Annotation plays a major role in a user’s reading of a document: from elementary school students making notes on text books to professors marking up their latest research papers....
Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan, Harold W. Thimb...
This paper summarizes results from two educational research Ph.D. theses carried out in recent years at the "Laboratoire de Robotique Pédagogique" of the Université de...
The paper reviews the development of generic user modeling systems over the past twenty years. It describes their purposes, their services within user-adaptive systems, and the dif...