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PPOPP
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Teleport messaging for distributed stream programs
In this paper, we develop a new language construct to address one of the pitfalls of parallel programming: precise handling of events across parallel components. The construct, te...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins,...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Interactive generation of integrated schemas
Schema integration is the problem of creating a unified target schema based on a set of existing source schemas that relate to each other via specified correspondences. The unifie...
Laura Chiticariu, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa
ENTCS
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
Anonymity in Probabilistic and Nondeterministic Systems
Anonymity means that the identity of the user performing a certain action is maintained secret. The protocols for ensuring anonymity often use random mechanisms which can be descr...
Catuscia Palamidessi
COMPLEXITY
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
Life, information, entropy, and time: Vehicles for semantic inheritance
abstractions provides an additional supra-phenotypic vehicle for semantic inheritance, which supports the cultural heritages around which civilizations revolve. The following three...
Antony R. Crofts
EXPERT
2002
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14 years 11 months ago
Modeling and Simulating Work Practice: A Method for Work Systems Design
er than abstracting human behavior as work processes or tasks--functional idealizations of the work to be accomplished--we model people's activities comprehensively and chrono...
Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey