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WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Learning to re-rank: query-dependent image re-ranking using click data
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Vidit Jain, Manik Varma
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Estimating sizes of social networks via biased sampling
Online social networks have become very popular in recent years and their number of users is already measured in many hundreds of millions. For various commercial and sociological...
Liran Katzir, Edo Liberty, Oren Somekh
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Pocket cloudlets
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ka...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam
KCAP
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
On the role of user-generated metadata in audio visual collections
Recently, various crowdsourcing initiatives showed that targeted efforts of user communities result in massive amounts of tags. For example, the Netherlands Institute for Sound a...
Riste Gligorov, Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Osse...