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WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Scaling question answering to the Web
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...
Cody C. T. Kwok, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Ubipay: conducting everyday payments with minimum user involvement
As services embedded into public spaces become increasingly transparent, one peripheral aspect of use continues to demand explicit user attention: payment. UbiPay is a system that...
Vili Lehdonvirta, Hayuru Soma, Hitoshi Ito, Hiroak...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
P2P-based routing and data management using the virtual cord protocol (VCP)
We present Virtual Cord Protocol (VCP), a virtual relative position based routing protocol for sensor networks that also provides methods for data management as known from standar...
Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German, Falko Dressler
JCDL
2009
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
No bull, no spin: a comparison of tags with other forms of user metadata
User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...
Catherine C. Marshall
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Revenue Focused Protection for VOD in DWDM Rings
—New protection schemes for video on demand (VOD) in a DWDM ring network are proposed that employ information per customer. Unlike prior schemes that rely on fixed priorities, th...
Ornan Ori Gerstel, Galen H. Sasaki, Ashok Balasubr...