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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Cognos: crowdsourcing search for topic experts in microblogs
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Fabrí...
MSWIM
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A performance evaluation framework for fair solutions in ad hoc networks
Fairness in multihop ad hoc networks has received considerable attention in the literature. Many schemes have been proposed, which attempt to compute the “optimal” bit rates o...
Manos Dramitinos, Rémi Vannier, Isabelle Gu...
ECIS
2003
15 years 1 months ago
Transacting with citizens: Australian government policy strategy and implementation of online tax lodgement
Many governments have shown leadership in encouraging their citizenry to conduct transactions on-line. The policies that underpin these initiatives refer to a blend of civic benef...
Jeff Chamberlain, Tanya Castleman
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee
COMGEO
2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
What to do with 500M location requests a day?
Skyhook Wireless provides hybrid positioning to millions of mobile devices around the world. Using an approach that integrates cell, WiFi, and GPS signals, the system services ove...
Kipp Jones, Richard Sutton