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NOSSDAV
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Providing statistically guaranteed streaming quality for peer-to-peer live streaming
Most of the literature on peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming focuses on how to provide best-effort streaming quality by efficiently using the system bandwidth; however, there is n...
Miao Wang, Lisong Xu, Byrav Ramamurthy
OOPSLA
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Typestate-oriented programming
Objects model the world, and state is fundamental to a faithful modeling. Engineers use state machines to understand and reason about state transitions, but programming languages ...
Jonathan Aldrich, Joshua Sunshine, Darpan Saini, Z...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
SAGT
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
Anarchy, Stability, and Utopia: Creating Better Matchings
We consider the loss in social welfare caused by individual rationality in matching scenarios. We give both theoretical and experimental results comparing stable matchings with soc...
Elliot Anshelevich, Sanmay Das, Yonatan Naamad
SLE
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Language Boxes
As domain-specific modeling begins to attract widespread acceptance, pressure is increasing for the development of new domainspecific languages. Unfortunately these DSLs typicall...
Lukas Renggli, Marcus Denker, Oscar Nierstrasz