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PDP
2002
IEEE
16 years 4 days ago
Eventually Consistent Failure Detectors
The concept of unreliable failure detector was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a mechanism that provides information about process failures. This mechanism has been used to sol...
Mikel Larrea, Antonio Fernández, Sergio Ar&...
VISUALIZATION
2002
IEEE
16 years 4 days ago
Exploring Surface Characteristics with Interactive Gaussian Images (A Case Study)
The Gauss map projects surface normals to a unit sphere, providing a powerful visualization of the geometry of a graphical object. It can be used to predict visual events caused b...
Bradley C. Lowekamp, Penny Rheingans, Terry S. Yoo
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
137views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
16 years 1 days ago
Prediction without markets
Citing recent successes in forecasting elections, movies, products, and other outcomes, prediction market advocates call for widespread use of market-based methods for government ...
Sharad Goel, Daniel M. Reeves, Duncan J. Watts, Da...
CEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Conformity and network effects in the Prisoner's Dilemma
— We study the evolution of cooperation using the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a metaphor of the tensions between cooperators and non-cooperators, and evolutionary game theory as the ...
José María Peña, Enea Pestela...
ACMACE
2009
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...