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SYNTHESE
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Structural realism versus standard scientific realism: the case of phlogiston and dephlogisticated air
: The aim of this paper is to revisit the phlogiston theory to see what can be learned from it about the relationship between scientific realism, approximate truth and successful r...
James Ladyman
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
You are what you say: privacy risks of public mentions
In today’s data-rich networked world, people express many aspects of their lives online. It is common to segregate different aspects in different places: you might write opinion...
Dan Frankowski, Dan Cosley, Shilad Sen, Loren G. T...
FAST
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1, 000, 000 Hours Mean to You?
Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we presen...
Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
What makes conversations interesting?: themes, participants and consequences of conversations in online social media
Rich media social networks promote not only creation and consumption of media, but also communication about the posted media item. What causes a conversation to be interesting, th...
Ajita John, Dorée D. Seligmann, Hari Sundar...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Scooby: middleware for service composition in pervasive computing
In this paper we argue for middleware languages that aid in service composition. We outline where such languages could be useful through the description of our current architectur...
Jon Robinson, Ian Wakeman, Tim Owen