Sciweavers

1018 search results - page 143 / 204
» Building the Biodiversity Commons
Sort
View
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Paul Adamczyk, Munawar Hafiz
122
Voted
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
159views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Histograms reloaded: the merits of bucket diversity
Virtually all histograms store for each bucket the number of distinct values it contains and their average frequency. In this paper, we question this paradigm. We start out by inv...
Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
SMC
2010
IEEE
198views Control Systems» more  SMC 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Fast tracking of natural textures using fractal snakes
Abstract — The natural environments that robotic applications often encounter can present difficult problems for imagebased task execution. Prior efforts have used both grayscale...
Christopher E. Smith
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
The life and times of files and information: a study of desktop provenance
In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, provenance refers to the history and genealogy of a document or file. Provenance helps us to understand the evolution and relationships...
Carlos Jensen, Heather Lonsdale, Eleanor Wynn, Jil...
166
Voted
ERSA
2010
187views Hardware» more  ERSA 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
An Open Source Circuit Library with Benchmarking Facilities
In this paper, we introduce the open-source PivPav backend tool for reconfigurable computing. Essentially, PivPav provides an interface to a library of digital circuits that are ke...
Mariusz Grad, Christian Plessl