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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The doctor as the second opinion and the internet as the first
People who use the Internet for health information often obtain their first opinion that way, and then, if they go to a doctor, the doctors advice is relegated to the second opini...
Lisa Neal Gualtieri
SAICSIT
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Determining requirements within an indigenous knowledge system of African rural communities
Eliciting and analyzing requirements within knowledge systems, which fundamentally differ so far from technology supported systems represent particular challenges. African rural c...
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell, Sh...
GECCO
2008
Springer
250views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Community detection in social networks with genetic algorithms
A new genetic algorithm to detect communities in social networks is presented. The algorithm uses a fitness function able to identify groups of nodes in the network having dense ...
Clara Pizzuti
CORR
2007
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
AFP
2004
Springer
105views Formal Methods» more  AFP 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Epigram: Practical Programming with Dependent Types
Abstraction and application, tupling and projection: these provide the ‘software engineering’ superstructure for programs, and our familiar type systems ensure that these opera...
Conor McBride