New Web 2.0 applications, with their emphasis on collaboration and communication, hold the promise of major advances in social connectivity and coordination; however, they also in...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Richard P. Sch...
—We present an application of an open source platform for wireless body sensor network called DexterNet to the problem of children’s asthma. The architecture of the system cons...
Edmund Y. W. Seto, Annarita Giani, Victor Shia, Cu...
Many consumers are misled into paying high prices due to the search costs associated with attaining price information [16]. The popularity of bargain-hunting web sites like Slickd...
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
We collected packet traces from Second Life client sessions and analyzed the packet contents. We observed that textures constitute a majority of the network traffic. We further c...