Sciweavers

24 search results - page 4 / 5
» Advancing return on investment analysis for government infor...
Sort
View
FIRSTMONDAY
2010
163views more  FIRSTMONDAY 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Bubbles, gullibility, and other challenges for economics, psychology, sociology, and information sciences
Abstract. Gullibility is the principal cause of bubbles. Investors and the general public get snared by a "beautiful illusion" and throw caution to the wind. Attempts to ...
Andrew M. Odlyzko
ITNG
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Efficient Technique for Distance Computation in Road Networks
With recent advances in wireless communication and position technologies, it became possible to collect and record trajectories of moving objects. Thus, many services in road netw...
Xu Jianqiu, Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Qin Xiaoli...
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Spatio-Textual Spreadsheets: Geotagging via Spatial Coherence
The spatio-textual spreadsheet is a conventional spreadsheet where spatial attribute values are specified textually. Techniques are presented to automatically find the textually-s...
Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling,...
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Google Book Search: Document Understanding on a Massive Scale
Unveiled in late 2004, Google Book Search is an ambitious program to make all the world's books discoverable online. The sheer scale of the problem brings a number of unique ...
L. Vincent
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani