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CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
R. Stuart Geiger, David Ribes
HICSS
2009
IEEE
117views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Issues Related to Development of E/E Product Line Architectures in Heavy Vehicles
The amount of electronics in vehicles is growing quickly, thus systems are becoming increasingly complex which makes the engineering of these software intensive systems more and m...
Peter Wallin, Stefan Johnsson, Jakob Axelsson
IAT
2009
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Topology and Memory Effect on Convention Emergence
Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...
Daniel Villatoro, Sandip Sen, Jordi Sabater-Mir
SASO
2009
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Evolution of Probabilistic Consensus in Digital Organisms
—The complexity of distributed computing systems and their increasing interaction with the physical world impose challenging requirements in terms of adaptation, robustness, and ...
David B. Knoester, Philip K. McKinley
ICRA
2009
IEEE
111views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Interactive learning of the acoustic properties of household objects
— Human beings can perceive object properties such as size, weight, and material type based solely on the sounds that the objects make when an action is performed on them. In ord...
Jivko Sinapov, Mark Wiemer, Alexander Stoytchev