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CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Come meet me at Ulduar: progression raiding in world of warcraft
In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior— raiding—remains limited. Raiding is important because it en...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Jeffrey Nichols, Tyler Pace, Sha...
SOFSEM
2012
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Recent Challenges and Ideas in Temporal Synthesis
In automated synthesis, we transform a specification into a system that is guaranteed to satisfy the specification against all environments. While modelchecking theory has led to...
Orna Kupferman
PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Load balancing without regret in the bulletin board model
We analyze the performance of protocols for load balancing in distributed systems based on no-regret algorithms from online learning theory. These protocols treat load balancing a...
Éva Tardos, Georgios Piliouras, Robert D. K...
LICS
2008
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
Collapsible Pushdown Automata and Recursion Schemes
Collapsible pushdown automata (CPDA) are a new kind of higher-order pushdown automata in which every symbol in the stack has a link to a stack situated somewhere below it. In addi...
Matthew Hague, Andrzej S. Murawski, C.-H. Luke Ong...
FCT
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Graph Searching, Elimination Trees, and a Generalization of Bandwidth
The bandwidth minimization problem has a long history and a number of practical applications. In this paper we introduce a natural extension of bandwidth to partially ordered layo...
Fedor V. Fomin, Pinar Heggernes, Jan Arne Telle