In this paper, we study the problem of using an annotated corpus in English for the same natural language processing task in another language. While various machine translation sy...
130 views134 votes15 years 10 months ago MHCI 2005»
This paper reports the user study and design of a concept to improve mobile messaging for teens. A study of current mobile phone use by teens (16-18) showed that, while they prefe...
: Within the last few years, e-learning has become a focal point in several universities and organizations. While much research has been devoted to producing econtent, describing i...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
169 views147 votes15 years 12 months ago CHI 2010»
More and more web users keep up with newest information through information streams such as the popular microblogging website Twitter. In this paper we studied content recommendat...
Wildfires are a frequent summer-time concern for land managers and communities neighboring wildlands throughout the world. Computational simulations have been developed to help an...
153 views155 votes15 years 9 months ago PERCOM 2010»
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
128 views128 votes15 years 6 months ago HPDC 2010»
Quality of data plays a very important role in any scientific research. In this paper we present some of the challenges that we face in managing and maintaining data quality for a...
143 views146 votes15 years 11 months ago P2P 2009»
Distributed computing is a very broad and active research area comprising fields such as cluster computing, computational grids, desktop grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Unf...
This paper addresses the development of a computer game design and development curriculum at the authors’ institution. The basis for curriculum decisions, as well as comparison t...