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JCDL
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
In the company of readers: the digital library book as "practiced place"
Most digital libraries (DLs) necessarily focus on the complex issues that arise when library collections are freed from their physical anchors in buildings and on paper. Typical i...
Nancy Kaplan, Yoram Chisik
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Barrier coverage with wireless sensors
In old times, castles were surrounded by moats (deep trenches filled with water, and even alligators) to thwart or discourage intrusion attempts. One can now replace such barrier...
Santosh Kumar, Ten-Hwang Lai, Anish Arora
MOBIDE
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Towards universal mobile caching
In the context of mobile data access, data caching is fundamental for both performance and functionality. For this reason there have been many studies into developing energy-effi...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...
SIGCOMM
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Limitations of equation-based congestion control
We study limitations of an equation-based congestion control protocol, called TFRC (TCP Friendly Rate Control). It examines how the three main factors that determine TFRC throughp...
Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
117views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
First-price path auctions
We study first-price auction mechanisms for auctioning flow between given nodes in a graph. A first-price auction is any auction in which links on winning paths are paid their ...
Nicole Immorlica, David R. Karger, Evdokia Nikolov...