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WMASH
2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Challenge: ubiquitous location-aware computing and the "place lab" initiative
To be widely adopted, location-aware computing must be as effortless, familiar and rewarding as web search tools like Google. We envisage the global scale Place Lab, consisting of...
Bill N. Schilit, Anthony LaMarca, Gaetano Borriell...
HPDC
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Decoupling Computation and Data Scheduling in Distributed Data-Intensive Applications
In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...
Kavitha Ranganathan, Ian T. Foster
ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Adaptive mesh compression in 3D computer graphics using multiscale manifold learning
This paper investigates compression of 3D objects in computer graphics using manifold learning. Spectral compression uses the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian of an object'...
Sridhar Mahadevan
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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
As our technologies travel to new cultural contexts and our designs and methods engage new constituencies, both our design and analytical practices face significant challenges. We...
Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita P...
CP
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
CP(Graph): Introducing a Graph Computation Domain in Constraint Programming
Abstract. In an increasing number of domains such as bioinformatics, combinatorial graph problems arise. We propose a novel way to solve these problems, mainly those that can be tr...
Grégoire Dooms, Yves Deville, Pierre Dupont