Crowdsourcing is emerging as a wellspring of creative designs. This paper examines the mechanisms that support collective design. A sequential combination system is described: one ...
End-user interactive machine learning is a promising tool for enhancing human productivity and capabilities with large unstructured data sets. Recent work has shown that we can cr...
Saleema Amershi, James Fogarty, Ashish Kapoor, Des...
Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
Recent work in Ontology learning and Text mining has mainly focused on engineering methods to solve practical problem. In this thesis, we investigate methods that can substantially...
—This paper describes a novel framework, called Distributed Partial Information Management (or DPIM). It addresses several major challenges in achieving efficient shared path pr...