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UIST
1998
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Informative Things: How to Attach Information to the Real World
We describe a new method and implementation for managing information through the use of physical objects. In today’s networked world, the trend is toward working in a global vir...
Rob Barrett, Paul P. Maglio
AAAI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Towards Large-Scale Collaborative Planning: Answering High-Level Search Queries Using Human Computation
Behind every search query is a high-level mission that the user wants to accomplish. While current search engines can often provide relevant information in response to well-speciï...
Edith Law, Haoqi Zhang
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
242views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
Dynamic management of resources and workloads for RDBMS in cloud: a control-theoretic approach
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Pengcheng Xiong
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Using Activity Theory to Model Context Awareness: A Qualitative Case Study
In this paper, we describe an approach to modelling contextaware systems starting on the knowledge level. We make use of ideas from Activity Theory to structure the general contex...
Jörg Cassens, Anders Kofod-Petersen
JCIT
2008
94views more  JCIT 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Finding Semantic Errors in the Rule-base of Production Systems, and Reasoning with Insufficient Input Data Petri-net-based Appro
Two simple but practical production systems are modeled using Petri Nets. Petri-net models are very useful in finding semantic errors like generalization error and missing conditi...
Hong-Youl Lee