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2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Estimating sizes of social networks via biased sampling
Online social networks have become very popular in recent years and their number of users is already measured in many hundreds of millions. For various commercial and sociological...
Liran Katzir, Edo Liberty, Oren Somekh
EDBT
2011
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Predicting completion times of batch query workloads using interaction-aware models and simulation
A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shiv...
HUC
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
LightWave: using compact fluorescent lights as sensors
In this paper, we describe LightWave, a sensing approach that turns ordinary compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs into sensors of human proximity. Unmodified CFL bulbs are shown ...
Sidhant Gupta, Ke-Yu Chen, Matthew S. Reynolds, Sh...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Interweaving mobile games with everyday life
We introduce a location?based game called Feeding Yoshi that provides an example of seamful design, in which key characteristics of its underlying technologies--the coverage and s...
Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Louise Barkhuus, Mal...
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Effects of instant messaging on the management of multiple project trajectories
We present a study of the effects of instant messaging (IM) on individuals' management of work across multiple collaborative projects. Groups of four participants completed f...
Susan R. Fussell, Sara B. Kiesler, Leslie D. Setlo...