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KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
16 years 6 days ago
Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
ECTEL
2009
Springer
16 years 8 hour ago
Sharing Distributed Resources in LearnWeb2.0
Abstract. The success of recent Web 2.0 platforms shows that people share information and resources within their social community and beyond. The use of these platforms in an e-lea...
Fabian Abel, Ivana Marenzi, Wolfgang Nejdl, Sergej...
JCDL
2009
ACM
121views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
15 years 12 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...
SOUPS
2009
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Ubiquitous systems and the family: thoughts about the networked home
Developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing herald a future in which computation is embedded into our daily lives. Such a vision raises important questions about how people...
Linda Little, Elizabeth Sillence, Pamela Briggs
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Collaborative Search and User Privacy: How Can They Be Reconciled?
Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
Thorben Burghardt, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Böh...