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ICONFERENCE
2012
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Not just a wink and smile: an analysis of user-defined success in online dating
This study examines the publically available stories of selfidentified successful couples that met using the online dating services Match.com, eHarmony, or OkCupid. We enumerate f...
Christopher M. Mascaro, Rachel M. Magee, Sean P. G...
ICONFERENCE
2012
14 years 11 days ago
No forests without trees: particulars and patterns in visualizing personal communication
When people use visualizations of conversational archives, they typically reflect on particular events, rather than patterns of activity over time. We explore whether this is a fu...
Ou Jie Zhao, Tiffany Ng, Dan Cosley
ICONFERENCE
2012
14 years 11 days ago
Rural anchor institution broadband connectivity: enablers and barriers to adoption
This paper presents findings from two research projects that entail needs assessments, benchmarking, and onsite diagnostics of anchor institutions in support of multi-million doll...
Lauren H. Mandel, Nicole D. Alemanne, Charles R. M...
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ICONFERENCE
2012
14 years 11 days ago
Online social networks in a post-Soviet state: how Hungarians protect and share on Facebook
As Facebook has become global, users from different cultural and socio-political contexts have joined the site. We present a case study investigating how both current and historic...
Blase Ur, Yang Wang
ICOIN
2012
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Coordinated TCP Westwood congestion control for multiple paths over wireless networks
— Multipath TCP (MPTCP) has just been approved by the IETF. It was designed to be fairly shared with regular TCP, so its performance is equivalent that of a regular TCP flow tha...
Tuan Anh Le, Choong Seon Hong, Eui-nam Huh
ICDCN
2012
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Economic Models for Cloud Service Markets
Cloud computing is a paradigm that has the potential to transform and revolutionalize the next generation IT industry by making software available to end-users as a service. A clou...
Ranjan Pal, Pan Hui
ICDCN
2012
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Lifting the Barriers - Reducing Latencies with Transparent Transactional Memory
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann
ICDCIT
2012
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Decision Making as Optimization in Multi-robot Teams
Abstract. A key challenge in multi-robot teaming research is determining how to properly enable robots to make decisions on actions they should take to contribute to the overall sy...
Lynne E. Parker
ICA
2012
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
New Online EM Algorithms for General Hidden Markov Models. Application to the SLAM Problem
In this contribution, new online EM algorithms are proposed to perform inference in general hidden Markov models. These algorithms update the parameter at some deterministic times ...
Sylvain Le Corff, Gersende Fort, Eric Moulines