Abstract—RFID promises to revolutionize the inventory management in large warehouses, retail stores, hospitals, transportation systems, etc. Periodically reading the IDs of the t...
Two experiments comparing user performance on ClearType and Regular displays are reported. In the first, 26 participants scanned a series of spreadsheets for target information. S...
Andrew Dillon, Lisa Kleinman, Gil Ok Choi, Randolp...
The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia’s participants. However, this resear...
This paper establishes tight bounds on the best-case time-complexity of distributed atomic read/write storage implementations that tolerate worst-case conditions. We study asynchr...
Mutual exclusion is used to coordinate access to shared resources by concurrent processes. k-Exclusion is a variant of mutual exclusion in which up to k processes can simultaneous...