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USENIX
1996
15 years 7 months ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
WSC
1989
15 years 7 months ago
A general purpose animator
Proof Animation™ is a family of products for animating discrete event simulations. Proof is available in a variety of versions, including an inexpensive, student version, midsiz...
Daniel T. Brunner, James O. Henriksen
CCIA
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Anytime Reasoning Mechanism for Conversational Agents
When an agent receives a query from another agent, it tries to satisfy it by building an answer based on its current knowledge. Depending on the available time or the urgency of t...
M. Mariela Morveli-Espinoza, Josep Puyol-Gruart
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
California fault lines: understanding the causes and impact of network failures
Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood. How often do failures occur, how long do they last,...
Daniel Turner, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, ...
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Information Acquisition and Exploitation in Multichannel Wireless Networks
A wireless system with multiple channels is considered, where each channel has several transmission states. A user learns about the instantaneous state of an available channel by ...
Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala, Saswati Sarkar