Christopher K. Hess

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 970 citations indexed

About

Christopher K. Hess is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher K. Hess has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 970 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher K. Hess's work include Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (9 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (5 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers). Christopher K. Hess is often cited by papers focused on Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (9 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (5 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers). Christopher K. Hess collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Brazil. Christopher K. Hess's co-authors include Roy H. Campbell, Manuel Román, Klara Nahrstedt, R. Cerqueira, A. Ranganathan, Renato Cerqueira, Anand Ranganathan, M. Dennis Mickunas, Fábio Kon and Ioannis N. Miaoulis and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of The Electrochemical Society, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and IEEE Pervasive Computing.

In The Last Decade

Christopher K. Hess

18 papers receiving 889 citations

Hit Papers

A middleware infrastructure for active spaces 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A middleware infrastructure for active spaces
    2002 670 citations Manuel Román, Christopher K. Hess et al. IEEE Pervasive Computing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher K. Hess United States 10 723 683 236 133 94 18 970
Manuel Román United States 12 846 1.2× 810 1.2× 310 1.3× 185 1.4× 110 1.2× 21 1.1k
R. Cerqueira Brazil 7 598 0.8× 541 0.8× 191 0.8× 107 0.8× 91 1.0× 14 779
A. Smailagic United States 6 441 0.6× 481 0.7× 149 0.6× 120 0.9× 42 0.4× 7 778
Andy Harter United Kingdom 6 484 0.7× 672 1.0× 95 0.4× 91 0.7× 30 0.3× 7 1.2k
Todd D. Hodes United States 10 236 0.3× 724 1.1× 240 1.0× 78 0.6× 14 0.1× 14 855
Olof Hagsand Sweden 10 244 0.3× 336 0.5× 62 0.3× 69 0.5× 97 1.0× 31 738
Béat Hirsbrunner Switzerland 12 106 0.1× 294 0.4× 202 0.9× 86 0.6× 45 0.5× 66 534
Steven Y. Ko United States 19 129 0.2× 736 1.1× 559 2.4× 191 1.4× 23 0.2× 69 1.1k
Hyotaek Lim South Korea 13 162 0.2× 321 0.5× 305 1.3× 148 1.1× 37 0.4× 60 693
Vaibhav Bajpai Germany 17 120 0.2× 542 0.8× 121 0.5× 208 1.6× 46 0.5× 60 821

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher K. Hess

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Hess, Christopher K. & Roy H. Campbell. (2004). A context-aware data management system for ubiquitous computing applications. 5. 294–301. 13 indexed citations
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Hess, Christopher K. & Roy H. Campbell. (2003). An application of a context-aware file system. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 7(6). 339–352. 25 indexed citations
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Campbell, Roy H. & Christopher K. Hess. (2003). The design and implementation of a context-aware file system for ubiquitous computing applications. 8 indexed citations
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Hess, Christopher K. & Roy H. Campbell. (2003). Media Streaming Protocol: an adaptive protocol for the delivery of audio and video over the Internet. 2. 903–907. 6 indexed citations
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Román, Manuel, Christopher K. Hess, Renato Cerqueira, et al.. (2002). Gaia. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. 6(4). 65–67. 90 indexed citations
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Román, Manuel, Christopher K. Hess, R. Cerqueira, et al.. (2002). A middleware infrastructure for active spaces. IEEE Pervasive Computing. 1(4). 74–83. 670 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hess, Christopher K., Francisco J. Ballesteros, Roy H. Campbell, & M. Dennis Mickunas. (2001). An adaptive data object service for pervasie computing environments. 3–3. 2 indexed citations
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Kon, Fábio, et al.. (2001). Dynamic resource management and automatic configuration of distributed component systems. 2–2. 40 indexed citations
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Cerqueira, Renato, Christopher K. Hess, Manuel Román, & Roy H. Campbell. (2001). Gaia: A Development Infrastructure for Active Spaces. 31 indexed citations
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Román, Manuel, Christopher K. Hess, Anand Ranganathan, et al.. (2001). GaiaOS: An Infrastructure for Active Spaces. 23 indexed citations
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Hess, Christopher K., Roy H. Campbell, & M. Dennis Mickunas. (2001). The Role of Users and Devices in Ubiquitous Data Access. 2 indexed citations
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Hess, Christopher K., et al.. (2000). Design and performance of MPEG video streaming to palmtop computers. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 3969. 266–273. 8 indexed citations
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Román, Manuel, et al.. (1999). Integrating PDAs into Distributed Systems: 2K and PalmORB. 137–149. 8 indexed citations
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Hess, Christopher K., et al.. (1999). <title>Design and performance of MPEG video streaming to palmtop computers</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3969. 266–273. 11 indexed citations
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Hess, Christopher K., Daniel Lin, & Klara Nahrstedt. (1998). VistaMail: an integrated multimedia mailing system. IEEE Multimedia. 5(4). 13–23. 7 indexed citations
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Wong, Peter Y., Christopher K. Hess, & Ioannis N. Miaoulis. (1993). Microscale Radiation Effects in Multilayer Thin-Film Structures During Rapid Thermal Processing. MRS Proceedings. 303. 1 indexed citations
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Miaoulis, Ioannis N., et al.. (1992). Thermal Analysis of Zone‐Melting Recrystallization of Silicon‐on‐Insulator Structures with an Infrared Heat Source: An Overview. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 139(9). 2687–2695. 9 indexed citations
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Wong, Peter Y., Christopher K. Hess, & Ioannis N. Miaoulis. (1992). Thermal radiation modeling in multilayer thin film structures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 35(12). 3313–3321. 16 indexed citations

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