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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 3 months ago
Why did Jim Gray win the Turing Award?
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the "...
Michael Stonebraker
JCT
2007
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Induced subgraphs of Ramsey graphs with many distinct degrees
An induced subgraph is called homogeneous if it is either a clique or an independent set. Let hom(G) denote the size of the largest homogeneous subgraph of a graph G. In this shor...
Boris Bukh, Benny Sudakov
CORR
2007
Springer
88views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 3 months ago
Uniform and Partially Uniform Redistribution Rules
Abstract - This short paper introduces two new fusion rules for combining quantitative basic belief assignments. These rules although very simple have not been proposed in literatu...
Florentin Smarandache, Jean Dezert
DAM
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Scheduling malleable tasks with interdependent processing rates: Comments and observations
In this short paper we examine the problem of scheduling malleable tasks on parallel processors. One of the main aims of the paper is to present a simple complexity interpretation...
Edmund K. Burke, Moshe Dror, James B. Orlin
EUROPLOP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Meeting real-time constraints using "Sandwich Delays"
This short paper is concerned with the use of patterns to support the development of software for reliable, resource-constrained, embedded systems. The paper introduces one new pa...
Michael J. Pont, Susan Kurian, Ricardo Bautistar
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Names and reference in user interfaces
This short paper argues that references in user interfaces, in particular names and the values they denote, are often designed in a way that is incomplete and inconsistent thereby...
Harold W. Thimbleby, Michael D. Harrison
COMPSAC
2001
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Designing Process: Taming the Web Development Cycle
In this short paper, we present the outline of a process for developing design products. The advantage of having a process for these types of projects is that it allows us to focu...
Adam Steele, Roymieco Carter
DOCENG
2004
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A document-based approach to the generation of web applications
: XML is unique in its very broad acceptance throughout both the document engineering and data processing community. This creates a unique opportunity for unifying the traditionall...
Andrea R. de Andrade, Ethan V. Munson, Maria da Gr...
WDAG
1999
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Generic Broadcast
This short paper establishes lower bounds on the time complexity of algorithms solving the generic broadcast problem. The paper shows that (a) to deliver messages in one round, no...
Fernando Pedone, André Schiper
CAISE
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Why we understand each other: the role of the context
This short paper addresses the problem of mutual understanding from an anthropomorphic point of view, highlighting the underlying basic mechanisms and principles. Then the paper ex...
G. Andrighetto, Pierluigi Assogna