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ESWS
2010
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Finding Your Way through the Rijksmuseum with an Adaptive Mobile Museum Guide
Abstract. This paper describes a real-time routing system that implements a mobile museum tour guide for providing personalized tours tailored to the user position inside the museu...
Willem Robert van Hage, Natalia Stash, Yiwen Wang,...
VTC
2006
IEEE
121views Communications» more  VTC 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Multiobjective QoS-Oriented Planning for Indoor Wireless LANs
Abstract— This paper describes an automatic wireless LAN access points planning approach based on a multicriteria modelling and solving. A realistic and efficient wLAN planning ...
Katia Jaffrès-Runser, Jean-Marie Gorce, St&...
WD
2010
15 years 2 months ago
Vicinity resource cartography for delay-tolerant networks: A holistic perspective
In this paper we propose a distributed approach to construct vicinity resource maps at each node in a delaytolerant network. The scheme uses recent encounters to estimate the avail...
Gabriel Sandulescu, Péter Schaffer, Simin N...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
JCDL
2004
ACM
97views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Realistic books: a bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?
: For many readers, handling a physical book is an enjoyably exquisite part of the information seeking process. Many physical characteristics of a book—its size, heft, the patina...
Yi-Chun Chu, David Bainbridge, Matt Jones, Ian H. ...