On-line discussion is a popular form of web-based computer-mediated communication and is an important medium for distance education. Automatic tools for analyzing online discussion...
Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) is well known for improving predictive accuracy by averaging inferences over all models in the model space. However, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)...
The many-to-many social communication activity on the popular technology-news website Slashdot has been studied. We have concentrated on the dynamics of message production without...
Usenet may be regarded as the world’s largest conversational application, with over 17,000 newsgroups and 3 million users. Despite its ubiquity and popularity, however, we know ...
Steve Whittaker, Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill...
In the last decade, spatio-temporal database research focuses on the design of effective and efficient indexing structures in support of location-based queries such as predictive...