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2004
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
QnA: augmenting an instant messaging client to balance user responsiveness and performance
The growing use of Instant Messaging for social and work-related communication has created a situation where incoming messages often become a distraction to users while they are p...
Daniel Avrahami, Scott E. Hudson
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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Components-first approaches to CS1/CS2: principles and practice
Ê Among the many ways to focus CS1/CS2 content, two have been published that emphasize concepts of component-based software engineering. Courses based on these two instances of a ...
Emily Howe, Matthew Thornton, Bruce W. Weide
MP
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Rounding algorithms for covering problems
In the last 25 years approximation algorithms for discrete optimization problems have been in the center of research in the fields of mathematical programming and computer science...
Dimitris Bertsimas, Rakesh V. Vohra
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ACMSE
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Learning to rank using 1-norm regularization and convex hull reduction
The ranking problem appears in many areas of study such as customer rating, social science, economics, and information retrieval. Ranking can be formulated as a classification pro...
Xiaofei Nan, Yixin Chen, Xin Dang, Dawn Wilkins
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
R. Stuart Geiger, David Ribes