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AIPS
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Stochastic Enforced Hill-Climbing
Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
Jia-Hong Wu, Rajesh Kalyanam, Robert Givan
ICALP
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Solos in Concert
We present a calculus of mobile processes without prefix or summation, and using two different encodings we show that it can express both action prefix and guarded summation. O...
Cosimo Laneve, Björn Victor
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Exploring the accessibility and appeal of surface computing for older adult health care support
This paper examines accessibility issues of surface computing with older adults and explores the appeal of surface computing for health care support. We present results from a stu...
Anne Marie Piper, Ross Campbell, James D. Hollan
OZCHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Designing situations
This paper extends the analytic framework Suchman used in Plans and Situated Actions by using it as a tool in the design of interactive, immersive environments that rely on human ...
Toni Robertson, Lian Loke
IPPS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Crash fault detection in celerating environments
Failure detectors are a service that provides (approximate) information about process crashes in a distributed system. The well-known “eventually perfect” failure detector, 3P...
Srikanth Sastry, Scott M. Pike, Jennifer L. Welch