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MFCS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Stochastic Games with Finitary Objectives
Abstract. The synthesis of a reactive system with respect to an ωregular specification requires the solution of a graph game. Such games have been extended in two natural ways. F...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Floria...
ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Intelligent Selection of Fault Tolerance Techniques on the Grid
The emergence of computational grids has lead to an increased reliance on task schedulers that can guarantee the completion of tasks that are executed on unreliable systems. There...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
FOCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a Characterization of Truthful Combinatorial Auctions
This paper analyzes implementable social choice functions (in dominant strategies) over restricted domains of preferences, the leading example being combinatorial auctions. Our wo...
Ron Lavi, Ahuva Mu'alem, Noam Nisan
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
O job can you return my mojo: improving human engagement and enjoyment in routine activities
Unlike machines, we humans are prone to boredom when we perform routine activities for long periods of time. Workers’ mental engagement in boring tasks diminishes, which eventua...
Dvijesh Shastri, Yuichi Fujiki, Ross Buffington, P...
LCR
1998
Springer
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14 years 10 days ago
Integrated Task and Data Parallel Support for Dynamic Applications
There is an emerging class of real-time interactive applications that require the dynamic integration of task and data parallelism. An example is the Smart Kiosk, a free-standing ...
James M. Rehg, Kathleen Knobe, Umakishore Ramachan...