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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
How opinions are received by online communities: a case study on amazon.com helpfulness votes
There are many on-line settings in which users publicly express opinions. A number of these offer mechanisms for other users to evaluate these opinions; a canonical example is Ama...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinet...
POPL
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A cost semantics for self-adjusting computation
Self-adjusting computation is an evaluation model in which programs can respond efficiently to small changes to their input data by using a change-propagation mechanism that updat...
Ruy Ley-Wild, Umut A. Acar, Matthew Fluet
POPL
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A calculus of atomic actions
We present a proof calculus and method for the static verification of assertions and procedure specifications in shared-memory concurrent programs. The key idea in our approach is...
Tayfun Elmas, Shaz Qadeer, Serdar Tasiran
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards an index of opportunity: understanding changes in mental workload during task execution
To contribute to systems that reason about human attention, our work empirically demonstrates how a user's mental workload changes during task execution. We conducted a study...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Piotr D. Adamczyk, Xianjun Sam Zh...
POPL
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Harmless advice
This paper defines an object-oriented language with harmless aspect-oriented advice. A piece of harmless advice is a computation that, like ordinary aspect-oriented advice, execut...
Daniel S. Dantas, David Walker