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UM
2007
Springer
16 years 24 days ago
Conversations Amidst Computing: A Study of Interruptions and Recovery of Task Activity
We present results from a field study investigating the influence of conversations on the multitasking behavior of computer users. We report on several findings, including the timi...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz
IWINAC
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Parallel Evolutionary Computation: Application of an EA to Controller Design
The evolutionary algorithms can be considered as a powerful and interesting technique for solving large kinds of control problems. However, the great disadvantage of the evolutiona...
Manuel Parrilla Sánchez, Joaquín Ara...
EUROPAR
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
The Verifying Compiler: A Grand Challenge for Computing Research
I propose a set of criteria which distinguish a grand challenge in science or engineering from the many other kinds of short-term or long-term research problems that engage the int...
C. A. R. Hoare
PLDI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Traceable data types for self-adjusting computation
Self-adjusting computation provides an evaluation model where computations can respond automatically to modifications to their data by using a mechanism for propagating modifica...
Umut A. Acar, Guy E. Blelloch, Ruy Ley-Wild, Kanat...
IJCAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Inside-Outside Probability Computation for Belief Propagation
In this paper we prove that the well-known correspondence between the forward-backward algorithm for hidden Markov models (HMMs) and belief propagation (BP) applied to HMMs can be...
Taisuke Sato