Ethnography has become a staple feature of IT research over the last twenty years, shaping our understanding of the social character of computing systems and informing their desig...
Andy Crabtree, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Pa...
The behavior of many algorithms is heavily determined by the input data. Furthermore, this often means that multiple and completely different execution paths can be followed, also...
Marc Leeman, Chantal Ykman-Couvreur, David Atienza...
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that takes advantage of idle cycles from computing resources donated by volunteers and connected through the Internet to compute large-scale...
Systems consisting of multiple proxy servers are a popular solution to deal with performance and network resource utilization problems related to the growth of the Web numbers. Af...
In desktop grids the use of off-the-shelf shared components makes the use of dedicated resources economically nonviable and increases the complexity of design of efficient storag...
Chreston Miller, Patrick Butler, Ankur Shah, Ali R...