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CACM
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2007
ACM
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
IUI
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2000
ACM
Prior research into embodied interface agents has found that users like them and find them engaging. In this paper, we argue that embodiment can serve an even stronger function if...
CHI
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1994
ACM
Computer users have tasks they need to perform, and are therefore motivated to overcome poorly designed interfaces. With video games, there is no external motivation for the task ...
EDBT
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...