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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Butler lies: awareness, deception and design
Instant messaging (IM) is a common and popular way for co-workers, friends, and family to stay in touch, but its “always-on” properties can sometimes lead people to feel overe...
Jeffrey T. Hancock, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Natalya N...
ICAS
2009
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ICAS 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Predicting Web Server Crashes: A Case Study in Comparing Prediction Algorithms
Abstract—Traditionally, performance has been the most important metrics when evaluating a system. However, in the last decades industry and academia have been paying increasing a...
Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Ricard Gavaldà
SEUS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Using Context Awareness to Improve Quality of Information Retrieval in Pervasive Computing
Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...
Joseph P. Loyall, Richard E. Schantz
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Experimental Comparison of Bandwidth Estimation Tools for Wireless Mesh Networks
—Measurement of available bandwidth in a network has always been a topic of great interest. This knowledge can be applied to a wide variety of applications and can be instrumenta...
Dhruv Gupta, Di Wu, Prasant Mohapatra, Chen-Nee Ch...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
RAPID: Shrinking the Congestion-Control Timescale
Abstract—TCP congestion-control is fairly inefficient in achieving high throughput in high-speed and dynamic-bandwidth environments. The main culprit is the slow bandwidth-searc...
Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Konda, Jasleen Kaur