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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Psst: a web-based system for tracking political statements
Determining candidates' views on important issues is critical in deciding whom to support and vote for; but finding their statements and votes on an issue can be laborious. I...
Samantha Kleinberg, Bud Mishra
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Finding core members in virtual communities
Finding the core members of a virtual community is an important problem in community analysis. Here we presented an simulated annealing algorithm to solve this problem by optimizi...
Haiqiang Chen, Xueqi Cheng, Yue Liu
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Expert recommender systems in practice: evaluating semi-automatic profile generation
Expert recommender systems (ERS) are considered a promising technology in knowledge management. However, there are very few studies which evaluated their appropriation in practice...
Tim Reichling, Volker Wulf
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Lessons from brain age on persuasion for computer security
Users generally have difficulty understanding and managing computer security tasks. We examined Nintendo's Brain Age games for ways to help users remember more secure passwor...
Alain Forget, Sonia Chiasson, Robert Biddle
SPAA
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Brief announcement: selfishness in transactional memory
In order to be efficient with selfish programmers, a multicore transactional memory (TM) system must be designed such that it is compatible with good programming incentives (GPI),...
Raphael Eidenbenz, Roger Wattenhofer