—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Prototyping and evaluation combine to explore ways that an effective, integrative organization of project-related information might emerge as a by-product of a person's effor...
William Jones, Predrag V. Klasnja, Andrea Civan, M...
In this paper, we present a practical experiment of building a service-oriented system upon current web services technologies and bioinformatics middleware. The system allows scie...
Xiaorong Xiang, Gregory R. Madey, Jeanne Romero-Se...
Abstract— Internet flash crowds (a.k.a. hot spots) are a phenomenon that result from a sudden, unpredicted increase in an on-line object’s popularity. Currently, there is no e...
Automated annotation of digital pictures has been a highly challenging problem for computer scientists since the invention of computers. The capability of annotating pictures by c...