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2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Computing Real Time Jobs in P2P Networks
— In this paper, we present a distributed computing framework designed to support higher quality of service and fault tolerance for processing deadline-driven tasks in a P2P envi...
Jingnan Yao, Jian Zhou, Laxmi N. Bhuyan
PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Solving Over-Constrained Temporal Reasoning Problems Using Local Search
Temporal reasoning is an important task in many areas of computer science including planning, scheduling, temporal databases and instruction optimisation for compilers. Given a kno...
Matthew Beaumont, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar, Mic...
ACE
2004
182views Education» more  ACE 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Facilitating Successful Online Computing Courses While Minimising Extra Tutor Workload
A key problem in facilitating a successful online course is the highly time -consuming nature of the administrative and pedagogical tasks involved. It is also difficult to achieve...
Stuart Young, Mae McSporran
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
Sequential item pricing for unlimited supply
We investigate the extent to which price updates can increase the revenue of a seller with little prior information on demand. We study prior-free revenue maximization for a selle...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Florin Constantin
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Your time zone or mine?: a study of globally time zone-shifted collaboration
We conducted interviews with sixteen members of teams that worked across global time zone differences. Despite time zone differences of about eight hours, collaborators still foun...
John C. Tang, Chen Zhao, Xiang Cao, Kori Inkpen