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PDC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
The impact of participation in information system design: a comparison of contextual placements
To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
Magnus Irestig, Henrik Eriksson, Toomas Timpka
PEWASUN
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A routing protocol for power constrained networks with asymmetric links
In many instances, an ad hoc network consists of nodes with different hardware and software capabilities as well as power limitations. This is the case of ad hoc grids where devi...
Guoqiang Wang, Yongchang Ji, Dan C. Marinescu, Dam...
PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
On the expected payment of mechanisms for task allocation
We study a representative task allocation problem called shortest paths: Let G be a graph in which the edges are owned by self interested agents. The cost of each edge is privatel...
Artur Czumaj, Amir Ronen
SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Solving the error correcting code problem with parallel hybrid heuristics
Some telecommunication systems can not afford the cost of repeating a corrupted message. Instead, the message should be somewhat “corrected” by the receiver. In these cases a...
Enrique Alba, J. Francisco Chicano
SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Applications of context-aware computing in hospital work: examples and design principles
Context-awareness is a key concept in ubiquitous computing, which sometimes seems to be a technology looking for a purpose. In this paper we report on the application of context-a...
Jakob Bardram