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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused ...
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, ...
JCDL
2011
ACM
272views Education» more  JCDL 2011»
14 years 20 days ago
CollabSeer: a search engine for collaboration discovery
Collaborative research has been increasingly popular and important in academic circles. However, there is no open platform available for scholars or scientists to effectively dis...
Hung-Hsuan Chen, Liang Gou, Xiaolong Zhang, Clyde ...
PODC
2011
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Robust network supercomputing without centralized control
Internet supercomputing is becoming an increasingly popular means for harnessing the power of a vast number of interconnected computers. This comes at a cost substantially lower t...
Seda Davtyan, Kishori M. Konwar, Alexander A. Shva...
KDD
2012
ACM
201views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
13 years 6 days ago
Learning from crowds in the presence of schools of thought
Crowdsourcing has recently become popular among machine learning researchers and social scientists as an effective way to collect large-scale experimental data from distributed w...
Yuandong Tian, Jun Zhu
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software
Graduates of computer science degree programs are increasingly being asked to maintain large, multi-threaded software systems; however, the maintenance of such systems is typicall...
Scott D. Fleming, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stire...