How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...
ABSTRACT Digital computer networks represent a disruptive technology, with the potential to create or destroy economic value in established industries. These opportunities and chal...
In a data-indexed DHT overlay network, published data annotations form distributed databases. Queries are distributed to these databases in a nonuniform way. Constructing content d...
Bassam A. Alqaralleh, Chen Wang, Bing Bing Zhou, A...
Face-to-face meetings usually encompass several modalities including speech, gesture, handwriting, and person identification. Recognition and integration of each of these modalit...
Ralph Gross, Michael Bett, Hua Yu, Xiaojin Zhu, Yu...
Bridging levels of ``granularity'' and ``scale'' are frequently cited as key problems for biomedical informatics. However, detailed accounts of what is meant b...