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ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Agent Competence on User Performance and Perception
We studied the role of the competence of an interface agent that helped users to learn and use a text editor. Participants in the study made a set of changes to a document with th...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal proactive caching in peer-to-peer network: analysis and application
As a promising new technology with the unique properties like high efficiency, scalability and fault tolerance, Peer-toPeer (P2P) technology is used as the underlying network to b...
Weixiong Rao, Lei Chen 0002, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Ying...
VLDB
1997
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
The Network as a Global Database: Challenges of Interoperability, Proactivity, Interactiveness, Legacy
The current integrated developments in network and computing give rise to a technical infrastructure for the information society which one may variously circumscribe by terms such...
Peter C. Lockemann, Ulrike Kölsch, Arne Kosch...
CONEXT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
NEVERMIND, the problem is already fixed: proactively detecting and troubleshooting customer DSL problems
Traditional DSL troubleshooting solutions are reactive, relying mainly on customers to report problems, and tend to be labor-intensive, time consuming, prone to incorrect resoluti...
Yu Jin, Nick G. Duffield, Alexandre Gerber, Patric...
MASS
2010
353views Communications» more  MASS 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Trailing mobile sinks: A proactive data reporting protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), data gathering using mobile sinks typically incurs constant propagation of sink location indication messages to guide the direction of data repor...
Xinxin Liu, Han Zhao, Xin Yang, Xiaolin Li, Ning W...