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FOCS
2007
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Gone but not forgotten: designing for disconnection in synchronous groupware
Synchronous groupware depends on the assumption that people are fully connected to the others in the group, but there are many situations (network delay, network outage, or explic...
Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christopher Wo...
CSCW
2006
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home
In this paper we describe a field trial designed to investigate the potential of remote, situated messaging within the home. Five households used our “HomeNote” device for app...
Abigail Sellen, Richard H. R. Harper, Rachel Eardl...
CSCW
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Towards dynamic collaboration architectures
In this paper, we introduce the concept of dynamically changing between centralized, replicated, and hybrid collaboration architectures. It is implemented by providing users a fun...
Goopeel Chung, Prasun Dewan
CSCW
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
What is chat doing in the workplace?
We report an empirical study of a synchronous messaging application with group-oriented functionality designed to support teams in the workplace. In particular, the tool supports ...
Mark Handel, James D. Herbsleb