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PODC
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months 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
GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 27 days ago
Using tomography for ubiquitous sensing
By embedding sensors in mobile devices, it is possible to exploit the ubiquitous presence of these devices to construct applications for large-scale sensing and monitoring of envi...
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, Amr El Abbadi
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Saving and using encountered information: implications for electronic periodicals
As part of a focus on electronic publications, we undertook an exploratory study of how people saved and used the information they encountered while reading. In particular, we wan...
Catherine C. Marshall, Sara A. Bly
PERCOM
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Information Agents for Pervasive Sensor Networks
In this paper, we describe an information agent, that resides on a mobile computer or personal digital assistant (PDA), that can autonomously acquire sensor readings from pervasiv...
Alex Rogers, Mike Osborne, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, ...
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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Enhancing web page readability for non-native readers
Readers face many obstacles on today’s Web, including distracting content competing for the user’s attention and other factors interfering with comfortable reading. On todayâ€...
Chen-Hsiang Yu, Robert C. Miller