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OZCHI
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A study of email and SMS use in rural Indonesia
This paper describes a two-year research study that piloted and evaluated the use of low-cost, low-bandwidth Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support meetings be...
Dean M. G. Hargreaves, Toni Robertson
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DSN
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Fluid modeling and control for server system performance and availability
Although server technology provides a means to support a wide range of online services and applications, their ad-hoc configuration poses significant challenges to the performan...
Luc Malrait, Sara Bouchenak, Nicolas Marchand
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VL
2009
IEEE
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TurKit: Tools for iterative tasks on mechanical turk
Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent para...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...
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GROUP
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Emergent team coordination: from fire emergency response practice to a non-mimetic simulation game
We take the work practices of fire emergency responders as the basis for developing simulations to teach team coordination. We introduce non-mimetic simulation: economic operation...
Zachary O. Toups, Andruid Kerne, William A. Hamilt...
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ICPADS
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Cost-Aware Resource Exchange Mechanism for Load Management across Grids
Numerous Grids have been created during the last years. Most of these Grids work in isolation and with different utilisation levels. As the resource utilisation within a Grid has ...
Marcos Dias de Assunção, Rajkumar Bu...