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INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
RADAR: An In-Building RF-Based User Location and Tracking System
The proliferation of mobile computing devices and local-area wireless networks has fostered a growing interest in location-aware systems and services. In this paper we present RAD...
Paramvir Bahl, Venkata N. Padmanabhan
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
WETICE
1997
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Communication Visibility in Shared Virtual Worlds
Though the service of shared virtual worlds is an active area of research, little effort has been made to optimize such systems for urban world spaces. Tracking the motion, action...
Michael V. Capps, Seth J. Teller
PERCOM
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Pervasive maps: Explore and interact with pervasive environments
—Efficient discovery of nearby devices and services is one of the preconditions to obtain a usable pervasive environment. Typical user interfaces in these environments hide the ...
Geert Vanderhulst, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
GECON
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
László Toka, Patrick Maillé