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PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
WG
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Connections between Theta-Graphs, Delaunay Triangulations, and Orthogonal Surfaces
Θk-graphs are geometric graphs that appear in the context of graph navigation. The shortest-path metric of these graphs is known to approximate the Euclidean complete graph up to...
Nicolas Bonichon, Cyril Gavoille, Nicolas Hanusse,...
AI
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Agent decision-making in open mixed networks
Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pf...
GIS
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Using location based social networks for quality-aware participatory data transfer
The sensing systems that monitor physical environments rely on communication infrastructures (wired or wireless) to collect data from the sensors embedded in the environment. Howe...
Houtan Shirani-Mehr, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyru...
OPODIS
2010
14 years 9 months ago
Signature-Free Broadcast-Based Intrusion Tolerance: Never Decide a Byzantine Value
: Provide application processes with strong agreement guarantees despite failures is a fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing. Correct processes have not to be...
Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal