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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Developmentally situated design (DSD): making theoretical knowledge accessible to designers of children's technology
There is a wealth of theoretical knowledge about the developmental abilities and skills of children. However, this knowledge is not readily accessible to designers of interactive ...
Tilde Bekker, Alissa Nicole Antle
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
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PODC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Asynchronous failure detectors
Failure detectors — oracles that provide information about process crashes — are an important ion for crash tolerance in distributed systems. Although current failure-detector...
Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy A. Lynch, Srikanth Sastry
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
PODS
2006
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
From statistical knowledge bases to degrees of belief: an overview
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
Joseph Y. Halpern