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ICIS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Are Digital Rights Valuable? Theory and Evidence from the eBook Industry
The effective management of digital rights is a crucial challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present an economic model that cha...
Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Arun Sundararajan
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski
CVIU
2007
240views more  CVIU 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Objective evaluation of approaches of skin detection using ROC analysis
Skin detection is an important indicator of human presence and actions in many domains, including interaction, interfaces and security. It is commonly performed in three steps: tr...
Stephen Schmugge, Sriram Jayaram, Min C. Shin, Leo...
WINE
2005
Springer
146views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A Cost Mechanism for Fair Pricing of Resource Usage
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...
SPAA
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling instruction placement on a spatial architecture
In response to current technology scaling trends, architects are developing a new style of processor, known as spatial computers. A spatial computer is composed of hundreds or eve...
Martha Mercaldi, Steven Swanson, Andrew Petersen, ...