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IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Monotonic Counters: A New Mechanism for Thread Synchronization
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
John Thornley, K. Mani Chandy
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Can markets help?: applying market mechanisms to improve synchronous communication
There is a growing interest in applying market mechanisms to tackle everyday communication problems such as communication interruptions and communication overload. Prior analytic ...
Gary Hsieh, Robert Kraut, Scott E. Hudson, Roberto...
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Accounting Mechanisms for Distributed Work Systems
In distributed work systems, individual users perform work for other users. A significant challenge in these systems is to provide proper incentives for users to contribute as muc...
Sven Seuken, Jie Tang, David C. Parkes
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Recovering trust and avoiding escalation: an overlooked design goal of social systems
The online trust discussion is focused on mechanisms for building and maintaining user trust. This paper introduces the relevance of providing for the repair of trust breakdowns. ...
Asimina Vasalou, Jens Riegelsberger
AAAI
1996
13 years 11 months ago
Generating Multiple New Designs From a Sketch
We describe a program called SketchIT that transforms a single sketch of a mechanical device into multiple families of new designs. It represents each of these families with a &qu...
Thomas F. Stahovich, Randall Davis, Howard E. Shro...