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PDP
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Eventually Consistent Failure Detectors
The concept of unreliable failure detector was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a mechanism that provides information about process failures. This mechanism has been used to sol...
Mikel Larrea, Antonio Fernández, Sergio Ar&...
VISUALIZATION
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Exploring Surface Characteristics with Interactive Gaussian Images (A Case Study)
The Gauss map projects surface normals to a unit sphere, providing a powerful visualization of the geometry of a graphical object. It can be used to predict visual events caused b...
Bradley C. Lowekamp, Penny Rheingans, Terry S. Yoo
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
137views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Prediction without markets
Citing recent successes in forecasting elections, movies, products, and other outcomes, prediction market advocates call for widespread use of market-based methods for government ...
Sharad Goel, Daniel M. Reeves, Duncan J. Watts, Da...
CEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Conformity and network effects in the Prisoner's Dilemma
— We study the evolution of cooperation using the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a metaphor of the tensions between cooperators and non-cooperators, and evolutionary game theory as the ...
José María Peña, Enea Pestela...
ACMACE
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...