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SPIRE
1999
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Developing a Tool to Assist Electronic Facilitation of Decision-Making Groups
One resource playing a critical role in electronically supported decision-making groups is the facilitator. Facilitation is a complex task, encompassing social abilities, pre-meet...
Tania Ho, Pedro Antunes
FLAIRS
2006
15 years 1 months ago
Intelligent Browsing Assistance for Corporate Knowledge Portals
The management of knowledge, i.e. knowing what is known and the ability to exploit it is a burning issue for most organizations. Though knowledge management has a strong social pe...
Markus Zanker, Sergiu Gordea, Marius-Calin Silaghi
ICCHP
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
SportSign: A Service to Make Sports News Accessible to Deaf Persons in Sign Languages
Sports are important in the life of deaf, as well as hearing persons, on physical, social and mental levels. However, despite that there exist many deaf sports organization in the ...
Achraf Othman, Oussama El Ghoul, Mohamed Jemni
HIS
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Scheduling Meta-Tasks in Distributed Heterogeneous Computing Systems: A Meta-Heuristic Particle Swarm Optimization Approach
Scheduling is a key problem in distributed heterogeneous computing systems in order to benefit from the large computing capacity of such systems and is an NP-complete problem. In ...
Hesam Izakian, Ajith Abraham, Václav Sn&aac...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 8 days ago
Citizen communications in crisis: anticipating a future of ICT-supported public participation
Recent world-wide crisis events have drawn new attention to the role information communication technology (ICT) can play in warning and response activities. Drawing on disaster so...
Leysia Palen, Sophia B. Liu