Existing hierarchical summarization techniques fail to provide synopses good in terms of relative-error metrics. This paper introduces multiplicative synopses: a summarization par...
The wide diffusion of reliable Internet is pushing two key novelties in the conception of modern software applications: the Software as a Service paradigm and the idea of the Inte...
Luciano Baresi, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Sam Guinea, S...
Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent para...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...
This paper explores the use of haptic feedback to abstract motor skill that requires recalling a sequence of forces. Participants are guided along a trajectory and are asked to le...
Daniel Morris, Hong Z. Tan, Federico Barbagli, Tim...
The growing diffusion of portable devices enables users to benefit from anytime and anywhere impromptu collaboration. Appropriate policy models that take into account the dynamici...