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CHI
2000
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker
TIT
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Cooperative Fading Regions for Decode and Forward Relaying
Abstract--Cooperative transmission protocols over fading channels are based on a number of relaying nodes to form virtual multiantenna transmissions. Diversity provided by these te...
Stefano Savazzi, Umberto Spagnolini
FAST
2009
13 years 6 months ago
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-optimizing Storage Systems
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
WebPod: persistent Web browsing sessions with pocketable storage devices
We present WebPod, a portable system that enables mobile users to use the same persistent, personalized web browsing session on any Internet-enabled device. No matter what compute...
Shaya Potter, Jason Nieh
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Empowerment: a universal agent-centric measure of control
Abstract- The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...