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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Software economies
Software construction has typically drawn on engineering metaphors like building bridges or cathedrals, which emphasize architecture, specification, central planning, and determin...
David F. Bacon, Eric Bokelberg, Yiling Chen, Ian A...
ICDCS
2012
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Securing Virtual Coordinates by Enforcing Physical Laws
—Virtual coordinate systems (VCS) provide accurate estimations of latency between arbitrary hosts on a network, while conducting a small amount of actual measurements and relying...
Jeffrey Seibert, Sheila Becker, Cristina Nita-Rota...
HAPTICS
2006
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Haptic-Based Biometrics: A Feasibility Study
Biometric systems identify users based on behavioral or physiological characteristics. The advantages of such systems over traditional authentication methods such as passwords are...
Mauricio Orozco Trujillo, Yednek Asfaw, Shervin Sh...
HUC
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Sundroid: solar radiation awareness with smartphones
While the sun is important for our health, overexposure to sunlight carries significant health risks ranging from sunburn to skin cancer. Although people know about these risks, ...
Thomas Fahrni, Michael Kuhn 0002, Philipp Sommer, ...
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
In this work we examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems we call...
Mor Naaman, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai