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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
CrowdWeaver: visually managing complex crowd work
Though toolkits exist to create complex crowdsourced workflows, there is limited support for management of those workflows. Managing crowd workers and tasks requires significant i...
Aniket Kittur, Susheel Khamkar, Paul André,...
HPDC
2012
IEEE
12 years 5 days ago
Work stealing and persistence-based load balancers for iterative overdecomposed applications
Applications often involve iterative execution of identical or slowly evolving calculations. Such applications require incremental rebalancing to improve load balance across itera...
Jonathan Lifflander, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Laxmik...
FAST
2011
13 years 1 months ago
A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
JUCS
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Seamless Transition between Connected and Disconnected Collaborative Interaction
Abstract: Nowadays, more and more users make use of web-based collaborative systems. Users participate in communities or search for and provide information in webbased systems. The...
Stephan Lukosch
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Shepherding the crowd yields better work
Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...