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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Communicating software agreement content using narrative pictograms
This paper presents narrative pictograms, diagrams designed to convey the abstract concepts of a software agreement. Narrative pictograms arose out of a need to increase the chanc...
Matthew Kay, Michael Terry
ICSOC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Management of Composite Services under Percentile-Based Service Level Agreements
We present a brokering service for the adaptive management of composite services. The goal of this broker is to dynamically adapt at runtime the composite service configuration, ...
Valeria Cardellini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Vincenzo...
STACS
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Online Correlation Clustering
We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, ...
Claire Mathieu, Ocan Sankur, Warren Schudy
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Achieving Honest Ratings with Reputation-Based Fines in Electronic Markets
—The effectiveness of online feedback mechanisms for rating the performance of providers in electronic markets is vulnerable to the submission of dishonest ratings. In this paper...
Thanasis G. Papaioannou, George D. Stamoulis
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
How Believable Are Real Faces? Towards a Perceptual Basis for Conversational Animation
Regardless of whether the humans involved are virtual or real, well-developed conversational skills are a necessity. The synthesis of interface agents that are not only understand...
Douglas W. Cunningham, Martin Breidt, Mario Kleine...