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VLDB
1998
ACM
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Bank of America Case Study: The Information Currency Advantage
This paper describes the external forces that motivate financial institutions to collect, aggregate, analyze, and mine data so that it can be transformed into information, one of ...
Felipe Cariño, Mark Jahnke
PDP
1997
IEEE
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The controlled logical clock--a global time for trace-based software monitoring of parallel applications in workstation clusters
Event tracing and monitoring of parallel applications are difficult if each processor has its own unsynchronized clock. A survey is given on several strategies to generate a glob...
Rolf Rabenseifner
VL
1997
IEEE
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Making Distortions Comprehensible
This paper discusses visual information representation from the perspective of human comprehension. The distortion viewing paradigm is an appropriate focus for this discussion as ...
M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, David J. Cowperthwaite,...
ACSE
1997
ACM
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I/O considered harmful (at least for the first few weeks)
One of the major difficulties with teaching the first programming course is input/output. It is desirable to show students how to input data and output results early in the course...
John Rosenberg, Michael Kölling
CHI
1997
ACM
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Beyond Fitts' Law: Models for Trajectory-Based HCI Tasks
Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating through nested-menus, drawing curves, and moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern computer interfaces. Users’ ...
Johnny Accot, Shumin Zhai