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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones: values, form and function
By their pervasiveness and by being worn on our bodies, mobile phones seem to have become intrinsic to safety. To examine this proposition, 43 participants, from four stakeholder ...
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Amy Iverson, David G. Hendr...
CSCW
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
PeerCare: Supporting Awareness of Rhythms and Routines for Better Aging in Place
Caring for the elderly is becoming a key challenge for society, given the shortage of trained personnel and the increased age of the population. Innovative approaches are needed t...
Yann Riche, Wendy E. Mackay
WSC
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting Manufacturing with Simulation: Model Design, Development, and Deployment
In this paper, we identify and discuss the features we believe are key to the successful use of simulation as a manufacturing support tool. The discussion begins with three sample...
Frank Chance, Jennifer Robinson, John W. Fowler
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Management of requirements in ERP development: a comparison between proprietary and open source ERP
Identification and specification of business requirements are extremely important when development of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) take place. It can be stated that...
Björn Johansson, Rogério Atem de Carva...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
171views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer
Large-scale Internet services require a computing infrastructure that can be appropriately described as a warehouse-sized computing system. The cost of building datacenter facilit...
Xiaobo Fan, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André...