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CHI
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The future of signs: interactive information, inexpensively!
We present an inexpensive, interactive ubiquitous computing system that supports information presentation on demand using a novel "card reading" interaction style. We�...
Aradhana Goel, Michael Higgins, Mickey McManus, Ma...
VLDB
1990
ACM
166views Database» more  VLDB 1990»
15 years 1 months ago
The Tree Quorum Protocol: An Efficient Approach for Managing Replicated Data
In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for managing replicated data. We impose a logical tree structure on the set of copies of an object. In a failurefree environment t...
Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
EUSUM: extracting easy-to-understand english summaries for non-native readers
In this paper we investigate a novel and important problem in multi-document summarization, i.e., how to extract an easy-tounderstand English summary for non-native readers. Exist...
Xiaojun Wan, Huiying Li, Jianguo Xiao
PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Advanced contention management for dynamic software transactional memory
The obstruction-free Dynamic Software Transactional Memory (DSTM) system of Herlihy et al. allows only one transaction at a time to acquire an object for writing. Should a second ...
William N. Scherer III, Michael L. Scott
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TPDS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Data Collection Strategies for Lifetime-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
Communication is a primary source of energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. Due to resource constraints, the sensor nodes may not have enough energy to report every readin...
Xueyan Tang, Jianliang Xu