Research and Advances – Page 58 – Communications of the ACM

Jul 1 2010

Using ESI Discovery Teams to Manage Electronic Data Discovery

The importance of electronically stored information (ESI) in litigation has increased greatly over the past decade. Managing discovery of electronic information requires close coordination among managers with widely diverse technical IT expertise, litigation experience and operational authority.

John C. Ruhnka and John W. Bagby

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2010

How Distributed Data Mining Tasks Can Thrive as Knowledge Services

Computer science applications are becoming more network centric, ubiquitous, knowledge intensive, and computing demanding. This will result in an ecosystem of pervasive applications and services that professionals and end-users can exploit everywhere.

Domenico Talia and Paolo Trunfio

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 1 2010

Why Do People Tag? Motivations For Photo Tagging

Tagging is gaining much popularity in recent years. Studies have suggested several factors that motivate user tagging. However, to date no quantitative study has assessed the strength of the effects of each motivation on levels of tag usage.

Oded Nov and Chen Ye

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2010

ERP: Drilling For Profit in the Oil and Gas Industry

Most large companies have adopted some form of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. While the potential benefits of ERP have been extolled frequently, only limited evidence states that implementation of ERP does, on average, lead to enhanced performance.

Jorge A. Romero, Nirup Menon, Rajiv D. Banker, and Mark Anderson

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2010

Creating the Experience Economy in E-Commerce

The growing commoditisation of services has transformed the competition for market share from focusing on the quality of services to the creation of memorable experiences. The economic value of the experience economy lies in co-producing staging experiences via customer participation and connection.

Wei-Lun Chang, Soe-Tsyr Yuan, and Carol W. Hsu

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Technical Perspective: Learning To Do Program Verification

When you decide to use a piece of software, how do you know it will do what you need it to do? Will it be safe to run? Will it interfere with other software you already have?

K. Rustan M. Leino

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Asserting and Checking Determinism For Multithreaded Programs

The trend towards processors with more and more parallel cores is increasing the need for software that can take advantage of parallelism. Writing correct multithreaded programs, however, has proven to be quite challenging in practice.

Jacob Burnim and Koushik Sen

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Examining Perceptions of Agility in Software Development Practice

Organizations undertaking software development are often reminded that successful practice depends on a number of non-technical issues that are managerial, cultural and organizational in nature.

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Barriers to Systematic Model Transformation Testing

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) techniques support extensive use of models in order to manage the increasing complexity of software systems. Automatic model transformations play a critical role in MDE since they automate complex, tedious, error-prone, and recurrent software development tasks.

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Factors That Influence Software Piracy: A View from Germany

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) provides compelling evidence that software piracy continues to be a global problem. The growing worldwide use of PCs has contributed to a 84% increase in piracy losses since 2003, a number that is expected to continue to rise.

Alexander Nill, John Schibrowsky, and James W. Peltier

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

The Social Influence Model of Technology Adoption

Human innovation, in combination with the Internet, networking, and communications technologies have produced a new platform for social and business networking, formation of community, and communication.

Sandra A. Vannoy and Prashant Palvia

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

The Requisite Variety of Skills For IT Professionals

Some commentators have suggested that, in order to stay competitive, IT professionals should retool themselves to gain competency in specific in-demand technical skills. Thriving in a dynamic environment requires competency in not only technical skills, but in non-technical skills as well.

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Efficiently Searching For Similar Images

New algorithms provide the ability for robust but scalable image search.

Kristen Grauman

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Technical Perspective: Building Confidence in Multicore Software

Surprises may be fun in real life, but not so in software. One approach to avoiding surprises in software is to establish its functional correctness, either by construction or by verification, but this is feasible in only a limited set of domains.

Vivek Sarkar

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Conference Paper Selectivity and Impact

Conference acceptance rate signals future impact of published conference papers.

Jilin Chen and Joseph A. Konstan

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Managing Scientific Data

Needed are generic, rather than one-off, DBMS solutions automating storage and analysis of data from scientific collaborations.

Anastasia Ailamaki, Verena Kantere, and Debabrata Dash

Computing Applications

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Jun 1 2010

Beyond Connection: Situated Wireless Communities

Advances in wireless information technologies have placed users in a ubiquitous computing environment that allows them to access and exchange information anywhere and anytime through wireless handheld devices such as smartphones.

Jun Sun and Marshall Scott Poole

Architecture and Hardware

Jun 1 2010

Future Tense: I, Myself and E-Myself

The Internet has revolutionized the manner in which people interact. Web 2.0 applications supporting Web-based social networking through blogs, wikis and folksonomies have proven potent in changing users' perception and use of the Internet.

Cheul Rhee, G. Lawrence Sanders, and Natalie C. Simpson

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

Panopticon Revisited

The year is 1787. Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham publishes his ideas for a panopticon, a quite brilliant merger of architectural design with an understanding of human behavior. This is a prison requiring minimal supervision.

Jan Kietzmann and Ian Angell

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

seL4: Formal Verification of an Operating-System Kernel

We report on the formal, machine-checked verification of the seL4 microkernel from an abstract specification down to its C implementation. We assume correctness of compiler, assembly code, hardware, and boot code.

Computing Applications

May 1 2010

Is Web-Based Supply Chain Integration Right For Your Company?

Companies are increasingly realizing that the progression from departmental to enterprise information systems has a logical next step: inter-organizational or supply chain solutions.

Charles E. Downing

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

May 1 2010

Student and Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs About Computer Science

The curriculum should inspire students to view CS as both accomplishment and intellectual discipline.

Clayton Lewis, Michele H. Jackson, and William M. Waite

Computing Applications

May 1 2010

Beyond Total Capture: A Constructive Critique of Lifelogging

Rather than try to capture everything, system design should focus on the psychological basis of human memory.

Abigail J. Sellen and Steve Whittaker

Architecture and Hardware

May 1 2010

Technical Perspective: Learning to Act in Uncertain Environments

The problem of decision making in an uncertain environment arises in many diverse contexts. The key issue in effectively solving problems like this is known as the exploration/exploitation trade-off.

Peter L. Bartlett

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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