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COLCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed floor control protocols for computer collaborative applications on overlay networks
— Computer supported collaborative applications on overlay networks are gaining popularity among users who are geographically dispersed. Examples of these kinds of applications i...
Shankar M. Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Tao Zheng...
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
OCLC
2007
86views more  OCLC 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Utrecht University Repository: the evolution of the Igitur archive - a case-study
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of the institutional repository of Utrecht University, the Igitur Archive. The Utrecht repository is unique for...
Saskia Franken, Bas Savenije, Jennifer Smith
MM
2009
ACM
195views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Flickr hypergroups
The amount of multimedia content available online constantly increases, and this leads to problems for users who search for content or similar communities. Users in Flickr often s...
Radu Andrei Negoescu, Brett Adams, Dinh Q. Phung, ...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
133views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Designing, implementing, and analyzing a placement test for introductory CS courses
An introductory CS1 course presents problems for educators and students due to students’ diverse background in programming knowledge and exposure. Students who enroll in CS1 als...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...