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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Professional usability in open source projects: GNOME, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans
Working as a usability professional in the open source arena is a challenging task. The decentralized and engineering-driven approach of open source projects can be at odds with c...
Calum Benson, Jiri Mzourek, Matthias Müller-P...
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A cognitive meta-analysis of design approaches to interruptions in intelligent environments
Minimizing interruptions to users is a crucial and acknowledged precondition for the adoption of new intelligent technologies such as ubiquitous and proactive computing. This pape...
Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 6 months ago
Query interactions in database workloads
Database workloads consist of mixes of queries that run concurrently and interact with each other. In this paper, we demonstrate that query interactions can have a significant imp...
Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
143views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
XML query optimization in the presence of side effects
The emergence of database languages with side effects, notably for XML, raises significant challenges for database compilers and optimizers. In this paper, we extend an algebra fo...
Giorgio Ghelli, Nicola Onose, Kristoffer Hø...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
228views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 6 months ago
Strongly consistent replication for a bargain
Strong consistency is an important correctness property for replicated databases. It ensures that each transaction accesses the latest committed database state as provided in centr...
Konstantinos Krikellas, Sameh Elnikety, Zografoula...