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Abstract-Cloud computing enables use of computing without user-side hardware, software and associated financial and knowledge requirements, except for the needs of a simple "webterminal" and access to the internet. Emerging economies can fully capitalize on this to start a "revolution" and leap-frog developed nations by skipping completely the several major computing architectures gone through in developed nations. An analogy is the leap-frogging, that has taken place with wireless telephony. We briefly introduce our research into streamlining India's grain supply chains and then discuss in detail on how cloud computing can play a pivotal role. Although the focus is on the portion of the supply chains between wholesalers and consumers, we also discuss how cloud computing can streamline the entire supply chains and how it offers leap-frogging opportunities for the entire society. The proposed use of webterminals for accessing the cloud for all computing needs is new, and we point out several high-impact research subjects.

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This paper describes an algorithm that can be used to improve the quality of multiword expressions extracted from documents. We measure multiword expression quality by the "usefulness" of a multiword expression in helping ontologists build knowledge maps that allow users to search a large document corpus. Our stopword based algorithm takes ngrams extracted from documents, and cleans them up to make them more suitable for building knowledge maps. Running our algorithm on large corpora of documents has shown that it helps to increase the percentage of useful terms from 40% to 70%-with an eight-fold improvement observed in some cases.

As the Web has expanded in its use and utility it has fundamentally changed the way in which individuals gather and use information. This paper suggests that those changes give rise to tangible and significant effects in the impressions people form of others using Web-based information. This study explores the impacts of perceiver gender, target gender, and social networking presence on subjects’ perceptions of potential teammates otherwise unknown to them as revealed by ratings they assign based only on search engine results. Experiments reveal differences in how male and female perceivers view others’ social networking activity in general and suggest that how the perceiver gender matches, or differs, from the gender of the target affects how social networking presence plays into impression formation. Findings hold implications for professionals, academics and individuals concerned with the role that Web-based information plays in impression formation and how inherent gender-based biases may affect power and politics in the workplace and beyond.