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OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
CMC: A Pragmatic Approach to Model Checking Real Code
Many system errors do not emerge unless some intricate sequence of events occurs. In practice, this means that most systems have errors that only trigger after days or weeks of ex...
Madanlal Musuvathi, David Y. W. Park, Andy Chou, D...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
OpenMessenger: gradual initiation of interaction for distributed workgroups
The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One o...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Gonzalo Ramos, M...
ACL
2006
13 years 7 months ago
An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition
This paper shows that a simple two-stage approach to handle non-local dependencies in Named Entity Recognition (NER) can outperform existing approaches that handle non-local depen...
Vijay Krishnan, Christopher D. Manning
CSCW
2006
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Scientific Data Collections and Distributed Collective Practice
As the basic sciences become increasingly information-intensive, the management and use of research data presents new challenges in the collective activities that constitute schola...
Melissa H. Cragin, Kalpana Shankar
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Load balancing without regret in the bulletin board model
We analyze the performance of protocols for load balancing in distributed systems based on no-regret algorithms from online learning theory. These protocols treat load balancing a...
Éva Tardos, Georgios Piliouras, Robert D. K...