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CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Field studies of computer system administrators: analysis of system management tools and practices
Computer system administrators are the unsung heroes of the information age, working behind the scenes to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the computer infrastructure that un...
Rob Barrett, Eser Kandogan, Paul P. Maglio, Eben M...
CE
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Virtual teamwork in very large undergraduate classes
Collaborative work is an important part of tertiary education but it is very difficult to arrange and supervise for extremely large classes of students in their first year. The po...
P. M. Alexander
ICALT
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Agency Architecture for Teacher Intervention in Robotics Classes
Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students’ or even small groups’ progress in a class of 30-40 students. An agency app...
Ilkka Jormanainen, Yuejun Zhang, Erkki Sutinen, Ki...
INFSOF
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
An effective class hierarchy concurrency control technique in object-oriented database systems
In this paper, we present a locking-based concurrency control scheme for object-oriented databases (OODBs). Our scheme deals with class hierarchy which is an important property in...
Woochun Jun, Le Gruenwald
FUN
2010
Springer
230views Algorithms» more  FUN 2010»
13 years 12 months ago
Scheduling with Bully Selfish Jobs
In job scheduling with precedence constraints, i j means that job j cannot start being processed before job i is completed. In this paper we consider selfish bully jobs who do no...
Tami Tamir