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ACMSE
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Biometrics education with hands-on labs
Biometrics is an emerging field via the automated use of unique and measurable physiological or behavioral characteristics to determine or verify identity. Biometrics has a variet...
Li Yang, Kathy Winters, Joseph M. Kizza
SC
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Building the PolarGrid portal using web 2.0 and OpenSocial
Science requires collaboration. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of coupling current social networking techniques to science gateways to provide a scientific collabor...
Zhenhua Guo, Raminderjeet Singh, Marlon E. Pierce
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Self-monitoring, self-awareness, and self-determination in cardiac rehabilitation
The application of self-monitoring technologies to the problem of promoting health-related behavioural change has been an active area of research for many years. This paper report...
Julie Maitland, Matthew Chalmers
SAC
1996
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
An enabling optimization for C++ virtual functions
Gaining the code re-use advantages of object oriented programming requires dynamic function binding, which allows a new subclass to override a function of a superclass. Dynamic bi...
Bradley M. Kuhn, David Binkley
ICALP
2000
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Bound on the Capacity of Backoff and Acknowledgement-Based Protocols
We study contention-resolution protocols for multiple-access channels. We show that every backoff protocol is transient if the arrival rate, , is at least 0.42 and that the capaci...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Mark Jerrum, Sampath Kannan, ...