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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
As our technologies travel to new cultural contexts and our designs and methods engage new constituencies, both our design and analytical practices face significant challenges. We...
Lilly Irani, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita P...
GECON
2009
Springer
125views Business» more  GECON 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Message Protocols for Provisioning and Usage of Computing Services
Abstract. The commercial availability of computational resources enable consumers to scale their applications on-demand. However, it is necessary for both consumers and providers o...
Nikolay Borissov, Simon Caton, Omer F. Rana, Aharo...
EDOC
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Enterprise Computing Systems as Information Factories
The analysis, and eventual approval or rejection, of new enterprise information technology (IT) initiatives often proceeds on the basis of informal estimates of return on investme...
K. Mani Chandy, Lu Tian, Daniel M. Zimmerman
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
184views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Computing pure strategy nash equilibria in compact symmetric games
We analyze the complexity of computing pure strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) in symmetric games with a fixed number of actions. We restrict ourselves to “compact” representati...
Christopher Thomas Ryan, Albert Xin Jiang, Kevin L...
CCGRID
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards an Economy-Based Optimisation of File Access and Replication on a Data Grid
We are working on a system for the optimised access and replication of data on a Data Grid. Our approach is based on the use of an economic model that includes the actors and the ...
Mark James Carman, Floriano Zini, Luciano Serafini...