We present a study of user voting on three websites: Imdb, Amazon and BookCrossings. Here we report on an expert evaluation of the voting mechanisms of each website and a quantitat...
Service resilience, defined as the continued availability of a service despite failures and other negative changes in its environment, is vital in many systems. It is typically ac...
Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses. However, as observed in [1], “Considering the prevalence of ...
: Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable attention meta-data on a ...
Although skip lists were introduced as an alternative to balanced binary search trees (BSTs), we show that the skip list can be interpreted as a type of randomly-balanced BST whos...