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ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An empirical framework for designing social products
Designers generally agree that understanding the context of use is important in designing products. However, technologically advanced products such as personal robots engender com...
Bilge Mutlu
CONEXT
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a versatile transport protocol
In the context of a reconfigurable transport protocol, this paper introduces two protocol instances based on the composition and specialisation of the TFRC congestion control and...
Guillaume Jourjon, Emmanuel Lochin, Patrick S&eacu...
CSB
2005
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Minimal Marker Sets to Discriminate Among Seedlines
Raising seeds for biological experiments is prone to error; a careful experimenter will test in the lab to verify that plants are of the intended strain. Choosing a minimal set of...
Thomas C. Hudson, Ann E. Stapleton, Amy M. Curley
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Beyond VCG: Frugality of Truthful Mechanisms
We study truthful mechanisms for auctions in which the auctioneer is trying to hire a team of agents to perform a complex task, and paying them for their work. As common in the ...
Anna R. Karlin, David Kempe, Tami Tamir
ICAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
AutoPod: Unscheduled System Updates with Zero Data Loss
Patching, upgrading, and maintaining operating system software is a growing management complexity problem that can result in unacceptable system downtime. We introduce AutoPod, a ...
Shaya Potter, Jason Nieh