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VR
2007
IEEE
133views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
VRFire: an Immersive Visualization Experience for Wildfire Spread Analysis
Wildfires are a frequent summer-time concern for land managers and communities neighboring wildlands throughout the world. Computational simulations have been developed to help an...
William R. Sherman, Michael Penick, Simon Su, Timo...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Sell your experiences: a market mechanism based incentive for participatory sensing
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
Juong-Sik Lee, Baik Hoh
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Towards long term data quality in a large scale biometrics experiment
Quality of data plays a very important role in any scientific research. In this paper we present some of the challenges that we face in managing and maintaining data quality for a...
Hoang Bui, Diane Wright, Clarence Helm, Rachel Wit...
P2P
2009
IEEE
143views Communications» more  P2P 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
SimGrid: a Generic Framework for Large-Scale Distributed Experiments
Distributed computing is a very broad and active research area comprising fields such as cluster computing, computational grids, desktop grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Unf...
Martin Quinson
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Entertaining Education - Using Games-Based and Service-Oriented Learning to Improve STEM Education
This paper addresses the development of a computer game design and development curriculum at the authors’ institution. The basis for curriculum decisions, as well as comparison t...
Jon Preston, Briana Morrison