Managing a Help Desk staffed with part-time student workers can be quite a challenge. However, it has been the experience of the Louisiana State University Office of Computing Ser...
In this work we consider a distributed system formed by a master processor and a collection of n processors (workers) that can execute tasks; worker processors are untrusted and m...
The amount and variety of information available today in digital form continue to increase at a rapid rate. To keep pace with these trends, knowledge workers must be empowered wit...
The ongoing rise of human computation as a means of solving computational problems has created an environment where human workers are often regarded as nameless, faceless computat...
Parallel application development is a very difficult task for non-expert programmers, and therefore support tools are needed for all phases of this kind of application development...