We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Model-based diagnostic reasoning often leads to a large number of diagnostic hypotheses. The set of diagnoses can be reduced by taking into account extra observations (passive mon...
Alexander Feldman, Gregory M. Provan, Arjan J. C. ...
A basic question of instruction is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study determining the relative efficacy of different instructional conte...
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak. According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x highe...
The primary-backup replication model is one of the commonly adopted approaches to providing fault tolerant data services. Its extension to the real-time environment, however, impo...