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ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
PeopleNet: engineering a wireless virtual social network
People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
Mehul Motani, Vikram Srinivasan, Pavan Nuggehalli
GROUP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Searching for expertise in social networks: a simulation of potential strategies
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Has Anyone Seen My Goose? Social Network Services in Developing Regions
Abstract— In developing regions, Internet connectivity is extremely poor, while mobile phone penetration is much higher. The inhabitants of developing conuntries still rely on tr...
Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft
ISMIR
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Perceptual and Cognitive Applications in Music Information Retrieval
Music librarians and cataloguers have traditionally created indexes that allow users to access musical works using standard reference information, such as the name of the composer...
David Huron