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DSOM
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Can Dynamic Provisioning and Rejuvenation Systems Coexist in Peace?
Dynamic provisioning systems change application capacity in order to use enough resources to accommodate current load. Rejuvenation systems detect/forecast software failures and te...
Raquel Vigolvino Lopes, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco ...
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UIST
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A toolkit for managing user attention in peripheral displays
Traditionally, computer interfaces have been confined to conventional displays and focused activities. However, as displays become embedded throughout our environment and daily li...
Tara Matthews, Anind K. Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, Sco...
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BMCBI
2008
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15 years 21 days ago
Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
ICDCN
2012
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Lifting the Barriers - Reducing Latencies with Transparent Transactional Memory
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann
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ICCAD
2001
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
A Convex Programming Approach to Positive Real Rational Approximation
As system integration evolves and tighter design constraints must be met, it becomes necessary to account for the non-ideal behavior of all the elements in a system. Certain devic...
Carlos P. Coelho, Joel R. Phillips, Luis Miguel Si...