Papers With Practical Content

The content of many papers submitted to ACM Journals is highly relevant to developers and engineers interested in keeping up with the latest trends, technologies, problems, and solutions in their field. The papers below are applicable to practitioners and are open and available to the computing community.

Papers of Practical Interest Available Free in the ACM Digital Library:

The Challenge and Promise of Software Citation for Credit, Identification, Discovery, and Reuse
By Kyle E. Niemeyer, Arfon M. Smith, Daniel S. Katz
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

Replacing Mechanical Turkers? Challenges in the Evaluation of Models with Semantic Properties
By Fred Morstatter, Huan Liu
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

Harmonic Segment-Based Semi-Partitioning Scheduling on Multi-Core Real-Time Systems
By Hadeer A. Hassan, Sameh A. Salem, Ahmed M. Mostafa, E. M. Saad    
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

CURA: A Framework for Quality-Retaining Power Saving on Mobile OLED Displays
By Chun-Han Lin, Chih-Kai Kang, Pi-Cheng Hsiu    
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

FE-SViT: A SViT-Based Fuzzy Extractor Framework
By Kai Xi, Jiankun Hu, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar    
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

Perspectives: Why New Programming Languages for Simulation?
By Gilbert Louis Bernstein, Fredrik Kjolstad    
Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Hexahedral-Dominant Meshing
By Dmitry Sokolov, Nicolas Ray, Lionel Untereiner, Bruno Lévy    
Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Shop-Type Recommendation Leveraging the Data from Social Media and Location-Based Services
By Zhiwen Yu, Miao Tian, Zhu Wang, Bin Guo, Tao Mei
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

Fast Sampling for Time-Varying Determinantal Point Processes
By Maoying Qiao, Richard Yi Da Xu, Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao    
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

Convex Sparse PCA for Unsupervised Feature Learning
By Xiaojun Chang, Feiping Nie, Yi Yang, Chengqi Zhang, Heng Huang
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

SNAP: A General-Purpose Network Analysis and Graph-Mining Library
By Jure Leskovec, Rok Sosič    
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

EXPERIENCE: Glitches in Databases, How to Ensure Data Quality by Outlier Detection Techniques
By Ciro D'Urso    
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

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Papers of Practical Interest Available with ACM Digital Library Subscription:

A Comparative Study of Recent Wireless Sensor Network Simulators
By Ivan Minakov, Roberto Passerone, Alessandra Rizzardi, Sabrina Sicari
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Designing Interactive Multiswimmer Exergames: A Case Study
By Woohyeok Choi, Jeungmin Oh, Taiwoo Park, Seongjun Kang, Miri Moon, Uichin Lee, Inseok Hwang, Darren Edge, Junehwa Song
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

LIPS: A Light Intensity--Based Positioning System for Indoor Environments
By Bo Xie, Kongyang Chen, Guang Tan, Mingming Lu, Yunhuai Liu, Jie Wu, Tian He    
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

BLOW-UP: Toward Distributed and Scalable Space Filling Curve Construction in 3D Volumetric WSNs
By Chen Wang, Wei Wei, Hongzhi Lin, Hongbo Jiang, John C. S. Lui
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

The Editor's Spotlight: TOCHI Issue 23:4
By Ken Hinckley
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Adding Physical Objects to an Interactive Game Improves Learning and Enjoyment: Evidence from EarthShake
By Nesra Yannier, Scott E. Hudson, Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Kenneth R. Koedinger
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Design for Rituals of Letting Go: An Embodiment Perspective on Disposal Practices Informed by Grief Therapy
By Corina Sas, Steve Whittaker, John Zimmerman
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Applying Seamful Design in Location-Based Mobile Museum Applications
By Tommy Nilsson, Carl Hogsden, Charith Perera, Saeed Aghaee, David J. Scruton, Andreas Lund, Alan F. Blackwell    
Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)

Covert Voice over Internet Protocol Communications with Packet Loss Based on Fractal Interpolation
By Yijing Jiang, Shanyu Tang, Liping Zhang, Muzhou Xiong, Yau Jim Yip
Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)

Clock-Tree-Aware Incremental Timing-Driven Placement
By Vinicius Livramento, Renan Netto, Chrystian Guth, José Luís Güntzel, Luiz C. V. Dos Santos
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Parasitic-Aware Common-Centroid FinFET Placement and Routing for Current-Ratio Matching
By Po-Hsun Wu, Mark Po-Hung Lin, Xin Li, Tsung-Yi Ho
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Floorplanning and Topology Synthesis for Application-Specific Network-on-Chips with RF-Interconnect
By Jinglei Huang, Song Chen, Wei Zhong, Wenchao Zhang, Shengxi Diao, Fujiang Lin 
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Analytical Clustering Score with Application to Postplacement Register Clustering
By Chang Xu, Guojie Luo, Peixin Li, Yiyu Shi, Iris Hui-Ru Jiang
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

PARR: Pin-Access Planning and Regular Routing for Self-Aligned Double Patterning
By Xiaoqing Xu, Bei Yu, Jhih-Rong Gao, Che-Lun Hsu, David Z. Pan
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

EBL Overlapping Aware Stencil Planning for MCC System
By Bei Yu, Kun Yuan, Jhih-Rong Gao, Shiyan Hu, David Z. Pan
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Novel Adaptive Power-Gating Strategy and Tapered TSV Structure in Multilayer 3D IC
By Seungwon Kim, Seokhyeong Kang, Ki Jin Han, Youngmin Kim
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

DC Characteristics and Variability on 90nm CMOS Transistor Array-Style Analog Layout
By Gong Chen, Toru Fujimura, Qing Dong, Shigetoshi Nakatake, Bo Yang
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Minimizing Stack Memory for Hard Real-Time Applications on Multicore Platforms with Partitioned Fixed-Priority or EDF Scheduling
By Chao Wang, Chuansheng Dong, Haibo Zeng, Zonghua Gu
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Differential Write-Conscious Software Design on Phase-Change Memory: An SQLite Case Study
By Sungkwang Lee, Taemin Lee, Hyunsun Park, Junwhan Ahn, Sungjoo Yoo, Youjip Won, Sunggu Lee
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

FH-OAOS: A Fast Four-Step Heuristic for Obstacle-Avoiding Octilinear Steiner Tree Construction
By Xing Huang, Wenzhong Guo, Genggeng Liu, Guolong Chen
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

A Survey of Techniques for Cache Locking
By Sparsh Mittal
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Process Independent Design Methodology for the Active RC and Single-Inverter-Based Rail Clamp
By Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian, Robert Elio, Sule Ozev
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Synthesis of Dual-Mode Circuits Through Library Design, Gate Sizing, and Clock-Tree Optimization
By Sangmin Kim, Seokhyeong Kang, Youngsoo Shin
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Performance Evaluation of NoC-Based Multicore Systems: From Traffic Analysis to NoC Latency Modeling
By Zhiliang Qian, Paul Bogdan, Chi-Ying Tsui, Radu Marculescu
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Path Selection for Real-Time Communication on Priority-Aware NoCs
By Hany Kashif, Hiren Patel, Sebastian Fischmeister    
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Accessible Play in Everyday Spaces: Mixed Reality Gaming for Adult Powered Chair Users
By Katie Seaborn, Jamal Edey, Gregory Dolinar, Margot Whitfield, Paula Gardner, Carmen Branje, Deborah I. Fels
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Identifying Region-Wide Functions Using Urban Taxicab Trajectories
By Daqiang Zhang, Jiafu Wan, Zongjian He, Shengjie Zhao, Ke Fan, Sang Oh Park, Zhibin Jiang;
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

MARSA: A Marketplace for Realtime Human Sensing Data
By Tien-Dung Cao, Tran-Vu Pham, Quang-Hieu Vu, Hong-Linh Truong, Duc-Hung Le, Schahram Dustdar    
Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 

A “Suggested” Picture of Web Search in Turkish
By Erdem Sarigil, Oguz Yilmaz, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Rifat Ozcan, ÖzgÜr Ulusoy
Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)

Guest Editorial: Challenges of Embedded Systems as They Evolve into M2M, Internet of Things
By Seungmin Rho, Wenny Rahayu, Geyong Min
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

The Editor's Spotlight: TOCHI Issue 23:2
By K. Hinckley
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Gender and Performance in Computer Science
By Isabel Wagner
Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)

Security-Aware Design Methodology and Optimization for Automotive Systems
By Chung-Wei Lin, Bowen Zheng, Qi Zhu, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli    
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

What Users Actually Do in a Social Tagging System: A Study of User Behavior in BibSonomy
By Stephan Doerfel, Daniel Zoller, Philipp Singer, Thomas Niebler, Andreas Hotho, Markus Strohmaier    
Transactions on the Web (TWEB)

Declarative Cleaning of Inconsistencies in Information Extraction
By Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Frederick Reiss, Stijn Vansummeren    
Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Cloud Log Forensics: Foundations, State of the Art, and Future Directions
By Suleman Khan, Abdullah Gani, Ainuddin Wahid Abdul Wahab, Mustapha Aminu Bagiwa, Muhammad Shiraz, Samee U. Khan, Rajkumar Buyya, Albert Y. Zomaya    
Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Understanding Graph-Based Trust Evaluation in Online Social Networks: Methodologies and Challenges
By Wenjun Jiang, Guojun Wang, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jie Wu
Computing Surveys (CSUR)

KBLAS: An Optimized Library for Dense Matrix-Vector Multiplication on GPU Accelerators
By Ahmad Abdelfattah, David Keyes, Hatem Ltaief
Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)

Algorithm 958: Lattice Builder: A General Software Tool for Constructing Rank-1 Lattice Rules
By Pierre L'ecuyer, David Munger
Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)

Accessible Play in Everyday Spaces: Mixed Reality Gaming for Adult Powered Chair Users
By Katie Seaborn, Jamal Edey, Gregory Dolinar, Margot Whitfield, Paula Gardner, Carmen Branje, Deborah I. Fels    
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Corpus COFLA: A Research Corpus for the Computational Study of Flamenco Music
By Nadine Kroher, José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Joaquin Mora, Emilia Gómez
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)

Plan Bouquets: A Fragrant Approach to Robust Query Processing
By Anshuman Dutt, Jayant R. Haritsa    
Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Random Walk with Restart on Large Graphs Using Block Elimination
By Jinhong Jung, Kijung Shin, Lee Sael, U Kang
Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Research Challenges in Parallel and Distributed Simulation
By Richard M. Fujimoto
Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)

A Fast and Compact Language Model Implementation Using Double-Array Structures
By Jun-Ya Norimatsu, Makoto Yasuhara, Toru Tanaka, Mikio Yamamoto
Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)

A Scalable Framework for Provisioning Large-Scale IoT Deployments
By Michael Vögler, Johannes M. Schleicher, Christian Inzinger, Schahram Dustdar    
Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 

IdealVolting: Reliable Undervolting on Wireless Sensor Nodes
By Ulf Kulau, Felix Büsching, Lars Wolf
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Game Theory Framework for MAC Parameter Optimization in Energy-Delay Constrained Sensor Networks
By Messaoud Doudou, Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas, Djamel Djenouri, Jorge Garcia-Vidal, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Nadjib Badache
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Energy-Efficient Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks via Temperature-Aware Compensation
By Miao Xu, Wenyuan Xu, Tingrui Han, Zhiyun Lin    
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Argumentation Mining: State of the Art and Emerging Trends
By Marco Lippi, Paolo Torroni
Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 

Near-Static Shading Exploration for Smart Photovoltaic Module Topologies Based on Snake-like Configurations
By Maria-Iro Baka, Francky Catthoor, Dimitrios Soudris
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

ECDSA Passive Attacks, Leakage Sources, and Common Design Mistakes
By Jeremy Dubeuf, David Hely, Vincent Beroulle
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

sCARE: Reputation Estimation for Uncertain Web Services
By Zaki Malik, Brahim Medjahed, Abdelmounaam Rezgui    
Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 

Constructing Maintainable Semantic Relation Network from Ambiguous Concepts in Web Content
By Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Di Jiang, Dik Lun Lee, Wilfred Ng    
Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 

Quality-Based Online Data Reconciliation
By Asma Abboura, Soror Sahri, Mourad Ouziri Salima Benbernou
Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 

Mining Influencers Using Information Flows in Social Streams
By Karthik Subbian, Charu Aggarwal, Jaideep Srivastava    
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Review
By Bilel Elayeb, Ibrahim Bounhas
Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)

Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
By Falko Dressler, Margit Mutschlechner, Bijun Li, Rüdiger Kapitza, Simon Ripperger, Christopher Eibel, Benedict Herzog, Timo Hönig, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat    
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Web Service Composition: A Survey of Techniques and Tools
By Angel Lagares Lemos, Florian Daniel, Boualem Benatallah
Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Understanding Integer Overflow in C/C++
By Will Dietz, Peng Li, John Regehr, Vikram Adve
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

Tumbler: An Effective Load-Balancing Technique for Multi-CPU Multicore Systems
By Kishore Kumar Pusukuri, Rajiv Gupta, Laxmi N. Bhuyan
 Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)

The Netflix Recommender System: Algorithms, Business Value, and Innovation
By Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe, Neil Hunt    
Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)

Skylight—A Window on Shingled Disk Operation
By Abutalib Aghayev, Mansour Shafaei, Peter Desnoyers
Transactions on Storage (TOS)

Shuffle Index: Efficient and Private Access to Outsourced Data
By Sabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Stefano Paraboschi, Gerardo Pelosi, Pierangela Samarati
Transactions on Storage (TOS)

Security-Aware Obfuscated Priority Assignment for Automotive CAN Platforms
By Martin Lukasiewycz, Philipp Mundhenk, Sebastian Steinhorst
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Scanning for Digital Content: How Blind and Sighted People Perceive Concurrent Speech
By João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves    
Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

RAIDShield: Characterizing, Monitoring, and Proactively Protecting Against Disk Failures
By Ao Ma, Rachel Traylor, Fred Douglis, Mark Chamness, Guanlin Lu, Darren Sawyer, Surendar Chandra, Windsor Hsu    
Transactions on Storage (TOS)

Multioccupant Activity Recognition in Pervasive Smart Home Environments
By Asma Benmansour, Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Mohammed Feham    
Computing Surveys (CSUR)

GLAD: Group Anomaly Detection in Social Media Analysis
By Rose Yu, Xinran He, Yan Liu    
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs): Prototyping and Experimentation
By Robert Margolies, Maria Gorlatova, John Sarik, Gerald Stanje, Jianxun Zhu, Paul Miller, Marcin Szczodrak, Baradwaj Vigraham, Luca Carloni, Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis, Gil Zussman
Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

Dynamic Sorted Neighborhood Indexing for Real-Time Entity Resolution
By Banda Ramadan, Peter Christen, Huizhi Liang, Ross W. Gayler    
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

Document and Corpus Quality Challenges for Knowledge Management in Engineering Enterprises
By Dirk Ahlers, John Krogstie
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

Design and Construction of a Historical Financial Database of the Italian Stock Market 1973--2011
By Paolo Coletti, Maurizio Murgia
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

Data Quality Challenge: Toward a Tool for String Processing by Examples
By Alberto Bartoli, Andrea De Lorenzo, Eric Medvet, Fabiano Tarlao
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

Boa: Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repository and Source-Code Mining
By Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen    
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

BetrFS: Write-Optimization in a Kernel File System
By William Jannen, Jun Yuan, Yang Zhan, Amogh Akshintala, John Esmet, Yizheng Jiao, Ankur Mittal, Prashant Pandey, Phaneendra Reddy, Leif Walsh, Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Rob Johnson, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Donald E. Porter
Transactions on Storage (TOS)

Space-Time Matching Algorithms for Interest Management in Distributed Virtual Environments
By Elvis S. Liu, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos
Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)

A Survey on Energy Efficiency in P2P Systems: File Distribution, Content Streaming, and Epidemics
By Simone Brienza, Sena Efsun Cebeci, Seyed Saeid Masoumzadeh, Helmut Hlavacs, Öznur Özkasap, 
Computing Surveys (CSUR)

A Bayesian Perspective on Locality Sensitive Hashing with Extensions for Kernel Methods
By Aniket Chakrabarti, Venu Satuluri, Srinivasan Parthasarathy    
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

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