Abstract— In developing regions, Internet connectivity is extremely poor, while mobile phone penetration is much higher. The inhabitants of developing conuntries still rely on tr...
We consider the problem of building a P2P-based search engine for massive document collections. We describe a prototype system called ODISSEA (Open DIStributed Search Engine Archi...
In a mobile setting, users use, handle and search for online information in a different way. Two features typically desired by mobile users are tailored information delivery and co...
William Van Woensel, Sven Casteleyn, Olga De Troye...
In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Autonomous Decentralized System (ADS) has the properties of online expansion, online maintenance and fault tolerance, which are among the important features for next generation in...