Collaborative information filtering techniques play a key role in many Web 2.0 applications. While they are currently mainly used for business purposes such as product recommendat...
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Reducing their energy consumption has become an important objective for many people. Consumption transparency and timely feedback are essential to support those who want to adjust...
Markus Weiss, Friedemann Mattern, Tobias Graml, Th...
Geographically embedded processes with hidden origins are often observable in events they generate. It is common practice in criminological forensics to reverse simple equation-ba...
In P2P file sharing systems, free-riders who use others’ resources without sharing their own cause system-wide performance degradation. Existing techniques to counter freerider...