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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Studying activity patterns in CSCW
We study small distributed work groups capturing, managing, and reusing knowledge in a collaborative activity. We conceive this process as adaptation of a group to an activity and...
Gregorio Convertino, Thomas P. Moran, Barton A. Sm...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware
The era of parallel computing for the masses is here, but writing correct parallel programs remains far more difficult than writing sequential programs. Aside from a few domains,...
Sarita V. Adve
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
An economic answer to unsolicited communication
We explore an alternative approach to spam based on economic rather than technological or regulatory screening mechanisms. We employ a model of email value which supports two intu...
Thede Loder, Marshall W. van Alstyne, Rick Wash
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An optimization approach to group coupling in heterogeneous collaborative systems
Recent proliferation of computing devices has brought attention to heterogeneous collaborative systems, where key challenges arise from the resource limitations and disparities. S...
Carlos D. Correa, Ivan Marsic