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NDQA
2003
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15 years 8 months ago
Toward a Question Answering Roadmap
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...
Mark T. Maybury
PE
2002
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Response times in a two-node queueing network with feedback
The study presented in this paper is motivated by the performance analysis of response times in distributed information systems, where transactions are handled by iterative server...
Robert D. van der Mei, Bart Gijsen, N. in't Veld, ...
HUC
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
UBI challenge workshop 2010: real world urban computing
This workshop promotes ubiquitous computing research in authentic urban setting, with real users and with sufficient scale and time span. We first motivate why such research is im...
Timo Ojala, Jukka Riekki
SIAMSC
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
An Iterative Method for Edge-Preserving MAP Estimation When Data-Noise Is Poisson
In numerous applications of image processing, e.g. astronomical and medical imaging, data-noise is well-modeled by a Poisson distribution. This motivates the use of the negative-lo...
Johnathan M. Bardsley, John Goldes
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur