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BMCBI
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
GeneKeyDB: A lightweight, gene-centric, relational database to support data mining environments
Background: The analysis of biological data is greatly enhanced by existing or emerging databases. Most existing databases, with few exceptions are not designed to easily support ...
S. A. Kirov, X. Peng, E. Baker, D. Schmoyer, B. Zh...
SAICSIT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Determining requirements within an indigenous knowledge system of African rural communities
Eliciting and analyzing requirements within knowledge systems, which fundamentally differ so far from technology supported systems represent particular challenges. African rural c...
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell, Sh...
CSCW
1998
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Fragmented Interaction: Establishing Mutual Orientation in Virtual Environments
This paper explores and evaluates the support for objectfocused collaboration provided by a desktop Collaborative Virtual Environment. The system was used to support an experiment...
Jon Hindmarsh, Mike Fraser, Christian Heath, Steve...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
ACSC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel