In the past decade, the wireless communications market has experienced tremendous growth, and this growth is likely to continue in the near future. In addition to an increase in the number of users, ever more demanding ...

With the explosion of the Internet, we are getting more and more information and it becomes difficult to digest. Agents exist to help the users. An agent is a component of software (or hardware) that is capable of ...

Email has become a critical tool in many people's lives, both professionally and personally. It is easily accessible, inexpensive, fast, versatile and is far-reaching both in terms of the number and spectrum of people to ...

This research studied linguistic hedges in informal language style. Hedges are expressions that show a weakened commitment of speakers with respect to what they are saying. This modification in their commitment is made for ...

Women s equal and meaningful participation in the digital society is seen as both integral to the realization of women s rights in the 21st century, as well as the realization of a just, inclusive and rights based information ...

The proliferation of mobile hand-held devises and the development of ad-hoc networking technologies has opened the possibility for users of these devises to partake in collaborative applications with other mobile users. ...

This dissertation describes an approach to mathematics activity design that aligns the affordances of off-the-shelf technologies with relevant mathematics pedagogy. The aim is to create transformative learning experiences ...

This thesis provides a quantitative examination of multiparty casual talk, a speech genre which is fundamental to human social life. Multiparty casual conversation has been reported to comprise chat and chunk phases, where ...