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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
ECHOES: encouraging companionship, home organization, and entertainment in seniors
The ECHOES project (Encouraging Companionship, Home Organization, and Entertainment in Seniors), is focused on understanding and improving aspects of companionship in senior popul...
Justin Donaldson, Joshua Evnin, Sidharth Saxena
DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Specify-explore-refine (SER): from specification to implementation
Driven by increasing complexity and reliability demands, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2004 commissioned development of ELEGANT, a complete SpecC-based envir...
Andreas Gerstlauer, Junyu Peng, Dongwan Shin, Dani...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Skew-aware automatic database partitioning in shared-nothing, parallel OLTP systems
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Andrew Pavlo, Carlo Curino, Stanley B. Zdonik
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Event synchronization for interactive cyberdrama generation on the web: a distributed approach
The digital generation of a story in which users have influence over the narrative is emerging as an exciting example of computer-based interactive entertainment. Interactive stor...
Stefano Ferretti, Marco Roccetti
WWW
2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Using Characters to Engage and Teach Novice Web Users: A Case Study
Starpoint Solutions was contracted by a major North American bank to design, develop, and usability test a series of five Web-based, interactive lessons teaching low- to middle-in...
Andrea H. Berman