Sciweavers

GECCO
2011
Springer
247views Optimization» more  GECCO 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
An agent-based model of the effects of a primate social structure on the speed of natural selection
The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...
Gideon M. Gluckman, Joanna Bryson
DEBS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Declarative data-driven coordination
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...
Johannes Gehrke
DBSOCIAL
2011
300views Database» more  DBSOCIAL 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
Boosting video popularity through recommendation systems
While search engines are the major sources of content discovery on online content providers and e-commerce sites, their capability is limited since textual descriptions cannot ful...
Renjie Zhou, Samamon Khemmarat, Lixin Gao, Huiqian...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Homebrew databases: complexities of everyday information management in nonprofit organizations
Many people manage a complex assortment of digital information in their lives. Volunteer coordinators at nonprofit organizations are no exception; they collectively manage informa...
Amy Voida, Ellie Harmon, Ban Al-Ani
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Pocket cloudlets
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ka...
GIS
2010
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Geoblogging: user-contributed geospatial data collection and fusion
One cannot deny that space and time are important to us. We perceive our world with respect to where and when we do things. We advocate geoblogging as a tool to capture such exper...
Dieter Pfoser, Charikleia Lontou, Euthymios Drymon...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
EntityTagger: automatically tagging entities with descriptive phrases
We consider the problem of entity tagging: given one or more named entities from a specific domain, the goal is to automatically associate descriptive phrases, referred to as eta...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Tao Cheng,...
HT
2009
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Managing publications and bookmarks with BibSonomy
In this demo we present BibSonomy, a social bookmark and publication sharing system. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous; H.3....
Dominik Benz, Folke Eisterlehner, Andreas Hotho, R...
SISAP
2010
IEEE
152views Data Mining» more  SISAP 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
www.MMRetrieval.net: a multimodal search engine
We introduce an experimental search engine for multilingual and multimedia information, employing a holistic web interface and enabling the use of highly distributed indices. Moda...
Konstantinos Zagoris, Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Ch...
JCDL
2004
ACM
151views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates
We describe PhotoCompas, a system that utilizes the time and location information embedded in digital photographs to automatically organize a personal photo collection. PhotoCompa...
Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, Hector...