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ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Balancing Scientist Needs and Volunteer Preferences in Volunteer Computing Using Constraint Optimization
BOINC is a middleware for Volunteer Computing. In BOINC projects, heterogeneous resources distributed across the Internet are used for large-scale scientific simulations. The larg...
James Atlas, Trilce Estrada, Keith Decker, Michela...
DCOSS
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
On sensor selection in linked information networks
—Sensor networks are often redundant by design; this is often done in order to achieve reliability in information processing. In many cases, the redundancy relationships between ...
Charu C. Aggarwal, Amotz Bar-Noy, Simon Shamoun
AAAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Preventing Strategic Manipulation in Iterative Auctions: Proxy Agents and Price-Adjustment
Iterative auctions have many computational advantages over sealed-bid auctions, but can present new possibilities for strategic manipulation. We propose a two-stage technique to m...
David C. Parkes, Lyle H. Ungar
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Collaborating to remember: a distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments
Individuals with cognitive deficits and their families are prime examples of collaborative "systems" that seek to perform everyday tasks together. Yet there has been lit...
Mike Wu, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Brian Richards, Rona...
ACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Towards Robust Multi-Tool Tagging. An OWL/DL-Based Approach
This paper describes a series of experiments to test the hypothesis that the parallel application of multiple NLP tools and the integration of their results improves the correctne...
Christian Chiarcos