This report describes the work done at The University of Melbourne for the TREC2005 Enterprise and Terabyte Tracks. In the Enterprise Track, we participated in the Discussion Task. We tried a number of different methods to make use of special features of mailing lists to improve retrieval effectiveness, and found the use of thread context to be promising. In the Terabyte Track, we continued our...

The primary objective of the Australia Post eLetter project1 was to determine the feasibility of using the eLetter service with the Patient Administration System Appointment Scheduling Module to provide a fully automated mailing function that would eliminate the need for manual processing of mail delivery. Issues with timely delivery of letters throughout all outpatient sites at the Royal Hobar...

Abstract Mailing lists are a major communication channel for supporting developer coordination in open-source software projects. In recent study, researchers explored temporal relationships (e.g., synchronization) between activities on source code and the mailing list, relying simple heuristics of collaboration co-editing files) sending e-mails to list). We propose two methods studying synchron...

This paper presents the design philosophy of the Hyperflow visual programming language. It also gives an overview of its semantic model. The primary purpose of language is to provide a user interface for a pen-based multimedia computer system designed for school children. Yet it is versatile enough to be used as a system programming language. The concept of visually interactive process, vip in ...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine whether a multi-modal intervention, which included mailing a patient reminder with a colon cancer decision aid to patients and system changes allowing direct access to scheduling screening tests through standing orders, would be an effective and efficient means of promoting colon cancer screening in primary care practice. METHODS We conducted a controlled tri...

The deployment of information-sharing systems in large organizations can significantly impact existing policies and procedures with regard to authority and control over information. Unless information-sharing systems explicitly support organizational structures and needs, these systems will be rejected summarily. The Postdoc system is a deployed Web-based information-sharing system created spec...

Within organizations, people learn through exchanging knowledge. This kind of task (named collaboration) is important for the organizational learning. Collaboration can be supported by Information Technology tools as chats, newsgroups, forums and e-mailing lists. However, this kind of support only enables message exchange, lacking to help people in the learning process. This work presents the a...