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JCDL
2006
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
The social life of books in the humane library
The development of public libraries may have inadvertently brought the age of marginalia to a close but the advent of digital libraries could revive the practice of marginal annot...
Yoram Chisik, Nancy Kaplan
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Predictive methods for improved vehicular WiFi access
With the proliferation of WiFi technology, many WiFi networks are accessible from vehicles on the road making vehicular WiFi access realistic. However, several challenges exist: l...
Pralhad Deshpande, Anand Kashyap, Chul Sung, Samir...
IUI
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
An adaptive calendar assistant using pattern mining for user preference modelling
In this paper, we present SmartCal, a calendar assistant that suggests appointment attributes, such as time, day, duration, etc., given any combination of initial user input attri...
Alfred Krzywicki, Wayne Wobcke, Anna Wong
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The effect of packet loss on redundancy elimination in cellular wireless networks
Network-level redundancy elimination (RE) algorithms reduce traffic volume on bandwidth-constrained network paths by avoiding the transmission of repeated byte sequences. Previous...
Cristian Lumezanu, Katherine Guo, Neil Spring, Bob...
USENIX
1996
13 years 11 months ago
Transparent Fault Tolerance for Parallel Applications on Networks of Workstations
This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...
Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam