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ECAL
2003
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing?
Abstract. We do not attempt to provide yet another definition of selforganization, but explore the conditions under which we can model a system as self-organizing. These involve th...
Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong We...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Can We Really Recover Data if Storage Subsystem Fails?
This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study on the limitations of copy-on-write snapshots and incremental backups in terms of data recoverability. We provide mathemat...
Weijun Xiao, Qing Yang
ER
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems
Many hypermedia models have been proposed, including those specifically developed to model navigational aspects of web sites. But few hypermedia systems have been implemented base...
Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Are we living in a robot cargo cult?
We use the Cargo Cult metaphor to discuss visions, methods and communication of robot research. Essentially cargo cult involves performing of imitative rituals that are conducted ...
Ylva Fernaeus, Mattias Jacobsson, Sara Ljungblad, ...