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GROUP
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
MUM
2005
ACM
138views Multimedia» more  MUM 2005»
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Group-based content push with dynamic session startup
This paper proposes an intelligent mobile middleware utilizing group-based content push with dynamic session startup and plugand-play features. Solution enhances the distribution ...
Otso Kassinen, Timo Koskela, Erkki Harjula, Jussi ...
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SPAA
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems
This paper presents the design and analysis of parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems, including NC and RNC algorithms for (metric) facility location, k-...
Guy E. Blelloch, Kanat Tangwongsan
CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
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Design patterns: an essential component of CS curricula
The field of software patterns has seen an explosion in interest in the last three years. Work to date has been on the recognition, cataloging, and finding of patterns with litt...
Owen L. Astrachan, W. Garrett Mitchener, Geoffrey ...