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IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Improving content delivery using provider-aided distance information
Content delivery systems constitute a major portion of today's Internet traffic. While they are a good source of revenue for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the huge volum...
Ingmar Poese, Benjamin Frank, Bernhard Ager, Georg...
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Finding Answers Using Resources in the Internet
In this paper we describe our experiments in finding answers from documents based on statistical and linguistic knowledge. We collected the candidate answers from sources available...
Mirna Adriani, Septian Adiwibowo
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Delay tolerant applications for low bandwidth and intermittently connected users: the aAQUA experience
With the explosive growth and spread of Internet, web access from mobile and rural users has become significant. But these users face problems of low bandwidth and intermittent In...
Saurabh Sahni, Krithi Ramamritham
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Electoral search using the VerkiezingsKijker: an experience report
The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on November 22, 2006. We built a system which helped voters to make an informed choice among the many participating parties. One of the...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, ...
IJCAI
1997
13 years 7 months ago
Middle-Agents for the Internet
Like middle-men in physical commerce, middleagents support the flow of information in electronic commerce, assisting in locating and connecting the ultimate information provider ...
Keith Decker, Katia P. Sycara, Mike Williamson