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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Shepherding the crowd yields better work
Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...
POLICY
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Privacy-Aware Handling of Authorizations
Privacy issues have hindered centralised authentication approaches from being adopted by a wide range of users. This also applies to authorizations which suffer from privacy probl...
Wolfgang Dobmeier, Günther Pernul
PDPTA
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Dependable High Performance Computing on a Parallel Sysplex Cluster
In this paper we address the issue of dependable distributed high performance computing in the field of Symbolic Computation. We describe the extension of a middleware infrastructu...
Wolfgang Blochinger, Reinhard Bündgen, Andrea...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
197views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Automated and on-demand provisioning of virtual machines for database applications
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...
Piyush Shivam, Azbayar Demberel, Pradeep Gunda, Da...
MOBIDE
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Pervasive Computing: What is it Good for?
The first mass-produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear—the AutoPC, the Internet-connected ScreenFridge, and the combination Microwave Oven/Home Banking term...
Andrew C. Huang, Benjamin C. Ling, Shankar Ponneka...