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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Tabletop sharing of digital photographs for the elderly
We have recently begun to see hardware support for the tabletop user interface, offering a number of new ways for humans to interact with computers. Tabletops offer great potentia...
Trent Apted, Judy Kay, Aaron J. Quigley
WAN
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
The NRW Metacomputing Initiative
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
Uwe Schwiegelshohn, Ramin Yahyapour
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
CP/CV: concept similarity mining without frequency information from domain describing taxonomies
Domain specific ontologies are heavily used in many applications. For instance, these form the bases on which similarity/dissimilarity between keywords are extracted for various k...
Jong Wook Kim, K. Selçuk Candan
SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Better results in mathematics lessons with a virtual personal teacher
In this paper we present the results of an experiment made with our e-librarian service ”MatES”, an e-Learning tool on fractions in mathematics. MatES allows students to enter...
Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Christoph Meinel
CORR
2006
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Tight Bounds on the Complexity of Recognizing Odd-Ranked Elements
Let S = s1, s2, s3, ..., sn be a given vector of n distinct real numbers. The rank of z R with respect to S is defined as the number of elements si S such that si z. We consider...
Shripad Thite