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ISWC
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Design of a Wearable Sensor Badge for Smart Kindergarten
We describe the system design of “Smart Kindergarten”, a smart problem solving environment for early childhood education. Two crucial building blocks that make up Smart Kinder...
Sung Park, Ivo Locher, Andreas Savvides, Mani B. S...
WACV
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Mosaic Generation for Under Vehicle Inspection
As the threat of terrorism becomes more prevalent, the need for technological innovations for tighter security rises. Some of the areas where security needs to be increased are at...
Paul E. Dickson, James Li, Zhigang Zhu, Allen R. H...
ICA3PP
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A Software Transactional Memory Service for Grids
In-memory data sharing for grids allow location-transparent access to data stored in volatile memory. Existing Grid middlewares typ- ically support only explicit data transfer betw...
Kim-Thomas Möller, Marc-Florian Müller, ...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
ICDCS
1990
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Implementing Fault-Tolerant Distributed Applications
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...
Santosh K. Shrivastava, Stuart M. Wheater