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CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Effects of machine translation on collaborative work
Even though multilingual communities that use machine translation to overcome language barriers are increasing, we still lack a complete understanding of how machine translation a...
Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida
MFCS
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Boxed Ambients with Communication Interfaces
We define BACI (Boxed Ambients with Communication Interfaces), an ambient calculus with a flexible communication policy. Traditionally, typed ambient calculi have a fixed commu...
Eduardo Bonelli, Adriana B. Compagnoni, Mariangiol...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 16 days ago
Collective response of human populations to large-scale emergencies
Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require a...
James P. Bagrow, Dashun Wang, Albert-Lászl&...
EDBT
2000
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Persistent Client-Server Database Sessions
Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...