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AROBOTS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Mobile manipulators for assisted living in residential settings
Abstract: We describe a methodology for creating new technologies for assisted living in residential environments. The number of eldercare clients is expected to grow dramatically ...
Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Grupen, Allen R. Hanson...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Utility-Optimal Medium Access Control: Reverse and Forward Engineering
— This paper analyzes and designs medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks through the network utility maximization (NUM) framework. We first reverse-e...
Jang-Won Lee, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank
ITRUST
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Alleviating the Sparsity Problem of Collaborative Filtering Using Trust Inferences
Collaborative Filtering (CF), the prevalent recommendation approach, has been successfully used to identify users that can be characterized as “similar” according to their logg...
Manos Papagelis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Themistokli...
HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Ubicomp4D: infrastructure and interaction for international development--the case of urban indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
ICWSM
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Competing to Share Expertise: The Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
"Witkeys" are websites in China that form a rapidly growing web-based knowledge market. A user who posts a task also offers a small fee, and many other users submit thei...
Jiang Yang, Lada A. Adamic, Mark S. Ackerman