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SPAA
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Transactions in the jungle
Transactional memory (TM) has shown potential to simplify the task of writing concurrent programs. Inspired by classical work on databases, formal definitions of the semantics of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Michal Kapa...
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Simulating human behaviors in agent societies
As increasing numbers of processors and agents pervade the human environment, societies comprising both humans and agents will emerge. Presently, it is unknown how a person might ...
Alicia Ruvinsky, Michael N. Huhns
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BCSHCI
2009
15 years 23 days ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
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SAICSIT
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Determining requirements within an indigenous knowledge system of African rural communities
Eliciting and analyzing requirements within knowledge systems, which fundamentally differ so far from technology supported systems represent particular challenges. African rural c...
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell, Sh...
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IJSKD
2011
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14 years 6 months ago
Socio-Technical Systems: A Meta-Design Perspective
Meta-design of socio-technical systems is an approach which complies with the need of integrating two different types of structures and processes: technical systems which are engi...
Gerhard Fischer, Thomas Herrmann