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IMC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Comprehensive view of a live network coding P2P system
In this paper we present the first implementation of a P2P content distribution system that uses Network Coding. Using results from live trials with several hundred nodes, we pro...
Christos Gkantsidis, John Miller, Pablo Rodriguez
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
EJIS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Interactive innovation of technology for mobile work
Despite the increasing popularity of mobile information systems, the actual processes leading to the innovation of mobile technologies remain largely unexplored. This study uses A...
Jan Kietzmann
ISCI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
A tool for design pattern detection and software architecture reconstruction
It is well known that software maintenance and evolution are expensive activities, both in terms of invested time and money. Reverse engineering activities support the obtainment ...
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni
EJIS
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A genealogical study of boundary-spanning IS design
This paper presents the design of a business-aligned information system (IS) from an actor-network perspective, viewing non-human intermediaries jointly as inscriptions and bounda...
Susan Gasson