In order to support knowledge workers throughout their task of searching, locating and manipulating information, a system that provides information suitable for a particular userâ...
Pinpoint is a promising first step towards using a rich model of task context in proactive and dynamic IR systems. Pinpoint allows a user to navigate decision tree representations...
Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Irava...
Chord is a distributed hash table (DHT) that requires only O(logn) links per node and performs searches with latency and message cost O(logn), where n is the number of peers in the...
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...
Mobile terminals (cellular phones, PDAs, palmtops etc.) emerge as a new class of small-scale, ad-hoc service providers that share data and functionality via mobile web services’...