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ECCC
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
Closed Timelike Curves Make Quantum and Classical Computing Equivalent
While closed timelike curves (CTCs) are not known to exist, studying their consequences has led to nontrivial insights in general relativity, quantum information, and other areas....
Scott Aaronson, John Watrous
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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
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Program comprehension as fact finding
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
EVOW
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Modeling the Shoot Apical Meristem in A. thaliana : Parameter Estimation for Spatial Pattern Formation
Understanding the self-regulatory mechanisms controlling the spatial and temporal structure of multicellular organisms represents one of the major challenges in molecular biology. ...
Tim Hohm, Eckart Zitzler
SOUPS
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Stopping spyware at the gate: a user study of privacy, notice and spyware
Spyware is a significant problem for most computer users. The term “spyware” loosely describes a new class of computer software. This type of software may track user activitie...
Nathaniel Good, Rachna Dhamija, Jens Grossklags, D...
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ASIAN
2003
Springer
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Unreliable Failure Detectors via Operational Semantics
Abstract. The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony i...
Uwe Nestmann, Rachele Fuzzati