While medium- and large-sized computing centers have increasingly relied on clusters of commodity PC hardware to provide cost-effective capacity and capability, it is not clear th...
Ron Sass, William V. Kritikos, Andrew G. Schmidt, ...
This paper is motivated by the open question whether the union of two disjoint NPcomplete sets always is NP-complete. We discover that such unions retain much of the complexity of...
In this paper we show that financial information can be used to sense many aspects of human activity. This simple technique gives people information about their daily lives, is ea...
Julia Schwarz, Jennifer Mankoff, H. Scott Matthews
This paper presents an exploration of user interfaces, persuasive interfaces and feedback techniques in the domain of the sink. Waterbot is a system to inform and motivate behavio...
Server-based collaborative filtering systems have been very successful in e-commerce and in direct recommendation applications. In future, they have many potential applications in...