As a platform for community networks, public information spaces that mirror the city metaphor are being developed around the world. The aim of digital cities is to pursue a future ...
In this paper we examine the problem of balancing load in a large-scale distributed system when information about server loads may be stale. It is well known that sending each req...
Despite several efforts to make search engines more childfriendly, children still have trouble using systems that require keyboard input. We present TeddIR: a system using a tangi...
Michel Jansen, Wim Bos, Paul E. van der Vet, Theo ...
This paper explores how homeless young people, aged 1325, make use of information systems in daily life. Observed in a community technology center, four different examples of uses...
— This paper presents the prototype of an expert peering system for information exchange in the knowledge society. Our system realizes an intelligent, real-time search engine for...
Christian Bauckhage, Tansu Alpcan, Sachin Agarwal,...