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POPL
1989
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
How to Make ad-hoc Polymorphism Less ad-hoc
raction that a programming language provides influences the structure and algorithmic complexity of the resulting programs: just imagine creating an artificial intelligence engine ...
Philip Wadler, Stephen Blott
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ASSETS
2008
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques
Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the prevalence of touch screens and have prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are st...
Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jacob O. Wobbroc...
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JAIR
2002
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15 years 2 months ago
Competitive Safety Analysis: Robust Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems
Much work in AI deals with the selection of proper actions in a given (known or unknown) environment. However, the way to select a proper action when facing other agents is quite ...
Moshe Tennenholtz
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PVLDB
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)
MapReduce is a computing paradigm that has gained a lot of attention in recent years from industry and research. Unlike parallel DBMSs, MapReduce allows non-expert users to run co...
Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, A...
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SOSP
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Attested append-only memory: making adversaries stick to their word
Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limit...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...