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Jones, Gareth J. F. and Brown, Peter J. (2004): Context-Aware Retrieval for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. In: Crestani, Fabio, Dunlop, Mark D. and Mizzaro, Stefano (eds.) Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access - Mobile HCI 2003 International Workshop September 8, 2004, Udine, Italy. pp. 227-243. Available online

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Brown, Peter J. (2002): From Information Retrieval to Hypertext Linking. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 8 pp. 231-255

“There is a plethora of approaches to retrieval. At one extreme is a web search engine, which provides the user with complete freedom to search a collection of perhaps over a billion documents. At the opposite extreme is a web page where the author has supplied a small number of links to outside documents, chosen in advance by the author. Many practical retrieval needs lie between these two extremes. This paper aims to look at the multi-dimensional spectrum of retrieval methods; at the end, it presents some hypothetical tools, hopefully blueprints to the future, that aim to cover wider parts of the spectrum than current tools do.”

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Brown, Peter J. and Jones, Gareth J. F. (2001): Context-aware Retrieval: Exploring a New Environment for Information Retrieval and Information Filtering. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 5 (4) pp. 253-263

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Jones, Gareth J. F. and Brown, Peter J. (2000): Information Access for Context-Aware Appliances. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2000. pp. 382-384. Available online

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Abowd, Gregory D., Dey, Anind K., Brown, Peter J., Davies, Nigel, Smith, Mark and Steggles, Pete (1999): Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness. In: Gellersen, Hans-Werner (ed.) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing - First International Symposium - HUC99 September 27-29, 1999, Karlsruhe, Germany. pp. 304-307. Available online

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Brown, Peter J. (1994): Adding Networking to Hypertext: Can it be Done Transparently?. In: Proceedings of ECHT 94 the ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology Sept 18-23, 1994, Edinburgh, UK. pp. 51-58. Available online

“Networks are becoming increasingly available and hypertext systems with networking capabilities are currently enjoying exponential growth. The vast majority of hypertext systems were not, however, designed to cater for networking. This paper examines whether it is possible to add networking to such systems and, if so, whether it can be done without upsetting existing hyperdocuments, existing authors and existing readers. The examination is done using one specific hypertext system, UNIX Guide, but the lessons are, I hope, more general.”

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Brown, Peter J. (1992): UNIX Guide: Lessons from Ten Years' Development. In: Lucarella, D., Nanard, Jocelyne, Nanard, Marc and Paolini, P. (eds.) Proceedings of ECHT 92 the Fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext November 30 - December 04, 1992, Milano, Italy. pp. 63-70. Available online

“Development of the Guide hypertext system has been progressing at the University of Kent since 1982. The paper looks back over the mistakes and successes of the last ten years, with a view of drawing some lessons for the future development of hypertext. The reader is not assumed to be a Guide user, and the lessons learned apply to hypertext systems in general.”

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Bernstein, Mark, Brown, Peter J., Frisse, Mark, Glushko, Robert J., Landow, George P. and Zellweger, Polle T. (1991): Structure, Navigation, and Hypertext: The Status of the Navigation Problem. In: Walker, Jan (ed.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 91 Conference December 15-18, 1991, San Antonio, Texas. pp. 363-366. Available online

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Brown, Peter J. (1991): Higher Level Hypertext Facilities: Procedures with Arguments. In Hypermedia, 3 (2) pp. 91-100

“For authors to write and maintain large hyperdocuments, hypertext systems must provide abstractions at a higher level than a link. This paper presents one example of such an abstraction: the hypertext equivalent of the procedure call with arguments. The paper describes why such a facility is needed, and how it has been implemented in the UNIX implementation of the Guide hypertext system.”

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Brown, Peter J. (1990): Assessing the Quality of Hypertext Documents. In: Rizk, Antoine, Streitz, Norbert A. and Andre, Jacques (eds.) ECHT 90 - European Conference on Hypertext November 27-30, 1990, Versailles, France. pp. 1-12.

“The greatest need in hypertext today is not for further technical wizardry, but for authors who can exploit the medium successfully. The paper discusses how we can help novices to become effective hypertext authors. Being effective not only means producing a hyperdocument of immediate appeal to readers; it also means ensuring that hyperdocuments have a potentially long lifetime, and can be maintained and enhanced by other authors over the years. Furthermore it means ensuring that the structure of a hyperdocument is 'correct' according to certain rules. In discussing these issues, the paper tries to draw lessons not only for authors but also for hypertext developers and researchers.”

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Brown, Peter J. (1987): Turning Ideas into Products: The Guide System. In: Weiss, Stephen and Schwartz, Mayer (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 87 Conference November 13-15, 1987, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. pp. 33-40.

“The Guide system is a successful commercial product that originally came out of some ideas of a research project. Unlike many other hypertext systems, Guide is aimed at naive users and authors in the personal computer market. This paper evaluates the basic principles of Guide, and describes the interplay between the product and the continuing hypertext research programme.”

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Brown, Peter J. (1967): The ML/I macro processor. In Communications of the ACM, 10 (10) pp. 618-623

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Brown, Peter J. (1963): Note on the proof of the non-existence of a phrase structure grammar for ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (3) p. 105

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Shoffner, Miriam G. and Brown, Peter J. (1963): A suggested method of making fuller use of strings in ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (4) pp. 169-171

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