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CSCW
2011
ACM
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Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
EDBT
2011
ACM
225views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
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On (not) indexing quadratic form distance by metric access methods
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Tomás Skopal, Tomás Bartos, Jakub Lo...
FOGA
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Approximating the distribution of fitness over hamming regions
The distribution of fitness values across a set of states sharply influences the dynamics of evolutionary processes and heuristic search in combinatorial optimization. In this p...
Andrew M. Sutton, Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe
GECCO
2011
Springer
232views Optimization» more  GECCO 2011»
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Mutation rates of the (1+1)-EA on pseudo-boolean functions of bounded epistasis
When the epistasis of the fitness function is bounded by a constant, we show that the expected fitness of an offspring of the (1+1)-EA can be efficiently computed for any point...
Andrew M. Sutton, Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Inference of field initialization
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Fausto Spoto, Michael D. Ernst