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GI
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Distributed Job Scheduling in a Peer-to-Peer Video Recording System
: Since the advent of Gnutella, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols have matured towards a fundamental design element for large-scale, self-organising distributed systems. Many research e...
Curt Cramer, Kendy Kutzner, Thomas Fuhrmann
VIS
2004
IEEE
124views Visualization» more  VIS 2004»
16 years 1 months ago
Constrained Inverse Volume Rendering for Planetary Nebulae
Determining the three-dimensional structure of distant astronomical objects is a challenging task, given that terrestrial observations provide only one viewpoint. For this task, b...
Charles D. Hansen, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Marcus A. ...
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 25 days ago
Synthesizing Stochasticity in Biochemical Systems
Randomness is inherent to biochemistry: at each instant, the sequence of reactions that fires is a matter of chance. Some biological systems exploit such randomness, choosing betw...
Brian Fett, Jehoshua Bruck, Marc D. Riedel
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 7 days ago
Noticing notice: a large-scale experiment on the timing of software license agreements
Spyware is an increasing problem. Interestingly, many programs carrying spyware honestly disclose the activities of the software, but users install the software anyway. We report ...
Nathaniel Good, Jens Grossklags, Deirdre K. Mullig...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 2 days ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi