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CLOUDCOM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
SLA-Driven Adaptive Resource Management for Web Applications on a Heterogeneous Compute Cloud
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers make guarantees about quality attributes such as availability. However, although one of the most important quali...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew Dailey, David N. Carrera
WSNA
2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Proximity interactions between wireless sensors and their application
Many applications in ubiquitous computing rely on knowing where people and objects are relative to each other. By placing small wireless sensors on people, at specific locations, ...
Waylon Brunette, Carl Hartung, Ben Nordstrom, Gaet...
HRI
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Judging a bot by its cover: an experiment on expectation setting for personal robots
—Managing user expectations of personal robots becomes particularly challenging when the end-user just wants to know what the robot can do, and neither understands nor cares abou...
Steffi Paepcke, Leila Takayama
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FoSS) community
CT This paper presents results from a study examining perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FOSS) community. 27 individuals associated with 11 di...
Michael Terry, Matthew Kay, Ben Lafreniere
COBUILD
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Rooms, Virtual Collaboration and Cognitive Workflow
This paper introduces the concept of Adaptive Rooms, which are virtual environments able to dynamically adapt to users' needs, including `physical' and cognitive workflow...
David Kirsh