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CIG
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Fun in Slots
— People play games for fun. Yet we are lacking a fundamental understanding of what fun is and how fun works in games and other media. For example, why do thousands of people spe...
Kevin Burns
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IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Relationships between communication models in networks using atomic registers
A distributed system is commonly modelled by a graph where nodes represent processors and there is an edge between two processors if and only if they can communicate directly. In ...
Lisa Higham, Colette Johnen
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WMTE
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Handheld-Mediated Communication to Support the Effective Sharing of Meaning in Joint Activity
This paper reports the results of a laboratory study of a proposed solution to the problem of coordinating entry into collaborative activity while protecting the privacy and contr...
Kibum Kim, Deborah G. Tatar, Steve R. Harrison
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CASES
2006
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Memory optimization by counting points in integer transformations of parametric polytopes
Memory size reduction and memory accesses optimization are crucial issues for embedded systems. In the context of affine programs, these two challenges are classically tackled by ...
Rachid Seghir, Vincent Loechner
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NSPW
2006
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Cent, five cent, ten cent, dollar: hitting botnets where it really hurts
Spyware, Adware, Bots. In each case, there is significant evidence that there is an increasing financial motivation behind the writing and distribution of these programs. In thi...
Richard Ford, Sarah Gordon