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CCS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds
Third-party cloud computing represents the promise of outsourcing as applied to computation. Services, such as Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s EC2, allow users to instantiate v...
Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, Ste...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
115views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
Temporal Coalescing with Now, Granularity, and Incomplete Information
This paper presents a novel strategy for temporal coalescing. Temporal coalescing merges the temporal extents of value-equivalent tuples. A temporal extent is usually coalesced of...
Curtis E. Dyreson
PDC
2004
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
The impact of participation in information system design: a comparison of contextual placements
To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
Magnus Irestig, Henrik Eriksson, Toomas Timpka
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Across boundaries of influence and accountability: the multiple scales of public sector information systems
The use of ICTs in the public sector has long been touted for its potential to transform the institutions that govern and provide social services. The focus, however, has largely ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
CORR
2007
Springer
126views Education» more  CORR 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Information Criteria and Arithmetic Codings : An Illustration on Raw Images
In this paper we give a short theoretical description of the general predictive adaptive arithmetic coding technique. The links between this technique and the works of J. Rissanen...
Guilhem Coq, Olivier Alata, Marc Arnaudon, Christi...