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ACMSE
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
AVARI: animated virtual agent retrieving information
Avari is a virtual receptionist for the Computer Science department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her components include background subtraction to detect a per...
Lauren Cairco, Dale-Marie Wilson, Vicky Fowler, Mo...
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ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Novice Java programmers' conceptions of "object" and "class", and variation theory
Problems with understanding concepts, so called misconceptions, have been investigated and reported in a number of studies regarding object-oriented programming [4], [3]. In a fi...
Anna Eckerdal, Michael Thuné
IJFCS
2007
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15 years 2 months ago
Modular Ranking Abstraction
Ranking Abstraction Ittai Balaban Computer Science Department, New York University, 251 Mercer St., New York, New York 10012, United States and Amir Pnueli Computer Science Departm...
Ittai Balaban, Amir Pnueli, Lenore D. Zuck
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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Seattle: a platform for educational cloud computing
Cloud computing is rapidly increasing in popularity. Companies such as RedHat, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM are increasingly funding cloud computing infrastructure and resea...
Justin Cappos, Ivan Beschastnikh, Arvind Krishnamu...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi