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HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Why It's Worth the Hassle: The Value of In-Situ Studies When Designing Ubicomp
How should Ubicomp technologies be evaluated? While lab studies are good at sensing aspects of human behavior and revealing usability problems, they are poor at capturing context o...
Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, Lenore Tedesco, Willi...
ESA
2004
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Competitive Online Approximation of the Optimal Search Ratio
How efficiently can we search an unknown environment for a goal in unknown position? How much would it help if the environment were known? We answer these questions for simple poly...
Rudolf Fleischer, Thomas Kamphans, Rolf Klein, Elm...

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15 years 6 months ago
Physical Modeling in MATLAB
"Most books that use MATLAB are aimed at readers who know how to program. This book is for people who have never programmed before. As a result, the order of presentation is u...
Allen B. Downey
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Non-linear control variates for regenerative steady-state simulation
We assume the existence of a parameterized family of control variates that could be used in a regenerative steady-state simulation. We show how such controls can be generated in t...
Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson
LISP
2002
78views more  LISP 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Functional Geometry
An algebra of pictures is described that is sufficiently powerful to denote the structure of a well-known Escher woodcut, Square Limit. A decomposition of the picture that is reaso...
Peter Henderson