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PERCOM
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Towards a Better Understanding of Context Attributes
The use of context as an input is one of the major characteristics of Ubiquitous Computing systems. This paper looks into the structural and the systematic features of context in ...
Tobias Zimmer
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
GreenFS: making enterprise computers greener by protecting them better
Hard disks contain data—frequently an irreplaceable asset of high monetary and non-monetary value. At the same time, hard disks are mechanical devices that consume power, are no...
Nikolai Joukov, Josef Sipek
CVPR
2001
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Spherical Eye from Multiple Cameras (Makes Better Models of the World)
This paper describes an imagingsystem that has been designed specifically for the purpose of recovering egomotion and structure from video. The system consists of six cameras in a...
Patrick Baker, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Al...
IUI
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Are two talking heads better than one?: when should use more than one agent in e-learning?
Recent interest in the use of software character agents raises the issue of how many agents should be used in online learning. In this paper we review evidence concerning the rela...
Hua Wang, Mark H. Chignell, Mitsuru Ishizuka
DAC
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Placement feedback: a concept and method for better min-cut placements
The advent of strong multi-level partitioners has made topdown min-cut placers a favored choice for modern placer implementations. We examine terminal propagation, an important st...
Andrew B. Kahng, Sherief Reda