—In this paper we face the following problem: how to provide each peer local access to the full information (not just a summary) that is distributed over all edges of an overlay ...
Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a varie...
There are many in the information systemsdiscipline who believe that user participation is necessary for successful systems development. However, it has been suggested that this b...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...