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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell
ICDE
2005
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
ViteX: A Streaming XPath Processing System
We present ViteX, an XPath processing system on XML streams with polynomial time complexity. ViteX uses a polynomial-space data structure to encode an exponential number of patter...
Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Yifeng Zheng
BMCBI
2010
115views more  BMCBI 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Integration of multiple data sources to prioritize candidate genes using discounted rating system
Background: Identifying disease gene from a list of candidate genes is an important task in bioinformatics. The main strategy is to prioritize candidate genes based on their simil...
Yongjin Li, Jagdish Chandra Patra
PODC
2012
ACM
13 years 15 days ago
Asynchronous failure detectors
Failure detectors — oracles that provide information about process crashes — are an important ion for crash tolerance in distributed systems. Although current failure-detector...
Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy A. Lynch, Srikanth Sastry
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
User-created forms as an effective method of human-agent communication
A key challenge for mixed-initiative systems is to create a shared understanding of the task between human and agent. To address this challenge, we created a mixed-initiative inte...
John Zimmerman, Kathryn Rivard, Ian Hargraves, Ant...