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2008
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16 years 7 months ago
VoiKiosk: increasing reachability of kiosks in developing regions
One of the several initiatives to bridge the digital divide in developing countries has been the deployment of information kiosks or knowledge centers in villages in rural parts o...
Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Personalized interactive faceted search
Faceted search is becoming a popular method to allow users to interactively search and navigate complex information spaces. A faceted search system presents users with keyvalue me...
Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Xue Liu
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Collaboratively Building Structured Knowledge with DBin: From del.icio.us Tags to an "RDFS Folksonomy"
DBin is a Semantic Web application that enables groups of users with a common interest to cooperatively create semantically structured knowledge bases. These user groups, which we...
Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards multi-granularity multi-facet e-book retrieval
Generally speaking, digital libraries have multiple granularities of semantic units: book, chapter, page, paragraph and word. However, there are two limitations of current eBook r...
Chong Huang, YongHong Tian, Zhi Zhou, Tiejun Huang
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Wake-on-WLAN
In bridging the digital divide, two important criteria are cost-effectiveness, and power optimization. While 802.11 is cost-effective and is being used in several installations in...
Nilesh Mishra, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman...