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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code
This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically at how programmers--an exemplar form of knowledge workers--opportunistically interlea...
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira ...
SIGCOMM
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
ExOR: opportunistic multi-hop routing for wireless networks
This paper describes ExOR, an integrated routing and MAC protocol that increases the throughput of large unicast transfers in multi-hop wireless networks. ExOR chooses each hop of...
Sanjit Biswas, Robert Morris
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mobile opportunistic commerce: mechanisms, architecture, and application
We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz, Chris Meek
CONEXT
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Near-optimal co-ordinated coding in wireless multihop networks
The recent work on COPE by Katti et al. demonstrates a practical application of network coding to wireless multihop networks. We note, however, that the opportunistic nature of CO...
Björn Scheuermann, Wenjun Hu, Jon Crowcroft
ECSCW
1993
13 years 8 months ago
Informed Opportunism as Strategy: Supporting Coordination in Distributed Collaborative Writing
Abstract: There is little understanding of how distributed writing groups manage their collaboration and what kinds of support are most useful. The paper presents three case studie...
Eevi Beck, Victoria Bellotti