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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Butler lies: awareness, deception and design
Instant messaging (IM) is a common and popular way for co-workers, friends, and family to stay in touch, but its “always-on” properties can sometimes lead people to feel overe...
Jeffrey T. Hancock, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Natalya N...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ICAS 2009»
16 years 17 days ago
Predicting Web Server Crashes: A Case Study in Comparing Prediction Algorithms
Abstract—Traditionally, performance has been the most important metrics when evaluating a system. However, in the last decades industry and academia have been paying increasing a...
Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Ricard Gavaldà
SEUS
2009
IEEE
16 years 17 days ago
Using Context Awareness to Improve Quality of Information Retrieval in Pervasive Computing
Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...
Joseph P. Loyall, Richard E. Schantz
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 14 days ago
Experimental Comparison of Bandwidth Estimation Tools for Wireless Mesh Networks
—Measurement of available bandwidth in a network has always been a topic of great interest. This knowledge can be applied to a wide variety of applications and can be instrumenta...
Dhruv Gupta, Di Wu, Prasant Mohapatra, Chen-Nee Ch...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 14 days ago
RAPID: Shrinking the Congestion-Control Timescale
Abstract—TCP congestion-control is fairly inefficient in achieving high throughput in high-speed and dynamic-bandwidth environments. The main culprit is the slow bandwidth-searc...
Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Konda, Jasleen Kaur