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DIS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Dialectic Approach to Problem-Solving
We analyze the dynamics of problem-solving in a framework which captures two key features of that activity. The first feature is that problem-solving is a social game where a numb...
Éric Martin, Jean Sallantin
FC
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Mitigating Inadvertent Insider Threats with Incentives
Inadvertent insiders are trusted insiders who do not have malicious intent (as with malicious insiders) but do not responsibly managing security. The result is often enabling a mal...
Debin Liu, XiaoFeng Wang, L. Jean Camp
IMC
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Network level footprints of facebook applications
With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, althou...
Atif Nazir, Saqib Raza, Dhruv Gupta, Chen-Nee Chua...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
ICAC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments Via Lookahead Control
— There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a ...
Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, N...