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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
SETS: search enhanced by topic segmentation
We present SETS, an architecture for efficient search in peer-to-peer networks, building upon ideas drawn from machine learning and social network theory. The key idea is to arran...
Mayank Bawa, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Prabhakar Raghav...
PUC
2000
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14 years 11 months ago
Context-Aware Telephony Over WAP
In this paper we introduce a novel approach to share context to enhance the social quality of remote mobile communication. We provide an analysis of how people start a conversation...
Albrecht Schmidt, Antti Takaluoma, Jani Mänty...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities
We describe ViralVCD: a low cost method for tracing paths of information diffusion in developing communities using physical media. We instituted a participatory video framework fo...
Nithya Sambasivan, Ed Cutrell, Kentaro Toyama
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Efficient top-k querying over social-tagging networks
Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
ELPUB
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
African universities in the knowledge economy: a collaborative approach to researching and promoting open communications in high
This paper will describe the informal collaborative approach taken by a group of donor funders and researchers in southern and eastern Africa aimed at consolidating the results an...
Eve Gray, Mark Burke