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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Relaxed Currency and Consistency: How to Say "Good Enough" in SQL
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
Hongfei Guo, Jonathan Goldstein, Per-Åke Lar...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Footing in human-robot conversations: how robots might shape participant roles using gaze cues
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Bilge Mutlu, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Takayuki Kanda, Hiro...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
DEXA
2004
Springer
70views Database» more  DEXA 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
How to Model Visual Knowledge: A Study of Expertise in Oil-Reservoir Evaluation
This work presents a study of the nature of expertise in geology, which demands visual recognition methods to describe and interpret petroleum reservoir rocks. In an experiment usi...
Mara Abel, Laura S. Mastella, Luís A. Lima ...
ICALT
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Completing LOM - How Additional Axioms Increase the Utility of Learning Object Metadata
Learning Objects Metadata describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. Unfortunately, annotating complete courses thoroughly with LOM metad...
Jan Brase, Mark Painter, Wolfgang Nejdl