SOS: A distributed mobile QandA system based on social networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 627-636

  Li, Ze ^a   Shen, Haiying ^a   Liu, Guoxin ^a   Li, Jin ^b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed system; on line social network; Question and answer system

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING METHODS; CLEMSON UNIVERSITY; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PRECISION AND RECALL; QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION;

COSTS; SEARCH ENGINES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84888802271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2012.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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