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NORDICHI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more
In this paper we present a number of augmented refrigerator magnet concepts. The concepts are shown to be derived from previous research into the everyday use of fridge surfaces. ...
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan, Rachel Eardley, Abiga...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
MAS Infrastructure: Definitions, Needs and Prospects
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
Les Gasser
WONS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Building a Better Wireless Mousetrap: Need for More Realism in Simulations
Reliable network simulators are important tools for research and development in the field of wireless communication. Although the ns-2 simulator is quite popular for testing wire...
Matthias Wellens, Marina Petrova, Janne Riihij&aum...
JSAC
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Understanding the Power of Pull-Based Streaming Protocol: Can We Do Better?
— Most of the real deployed peer-to-peer streaming systems adopt pull-based streaming protocol. In this paper, we demonstrate that, besides simplicity and robustness, with proper...
Meng Zhang, Qian Zhang, Lifeng Sun, Shiqiang Yang
USITS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Why Do Internet Services Fail, and What Can Be Done About It?
In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...