Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
Optical scan voting is considered by many to be the most trustworthy option for conducting elections because it provides an independently verifiable record of each voter’s inte...
Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy, Elisa H. Barney S...
This paper presents a new Wiki called SAVVY Wiki that realizes context-oriented, collective and collaborative knowledge management environments that are able to reflect users’ i...
Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, ...
: The era of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technology opens the world for new pervasive applications and services within the physical surroundings. Often users find themselves...