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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Data management for a smart earth: the Swiss NCCR-MICS initiative
The Swiss National Competence Center for Research in mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS or MICS) is one of several research initiatives sponsored by the Swiss...
Karl Aberer, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann
ICDT
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic Data Exchange
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Phokion Kolaitis
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
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WOSP
2010
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Agile resource management in a virtualized data center
In this paper we develop, implement and evaluate an approach to quickly reassign resources for a virtualized utility computing platform. The approach provides this platform agilit...
Wei Zhang, Hangwei Qian, Craig E. Wills, Michael R...
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IDTRUST
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Usable secure mailing lists with untrusted servers
Mailing lists are a natural technology for supporting messaging in multi-party, cross-domain collaborative tasks. However, whenever sensitive information is exchanged on such list...
Rakeshbabu Bobba, Joe Muggli, Meenal Pant, Jim Bas...