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MOBILWARE
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Pervasive Adaptation in Car Crowds
Abstract. Advances in the miniaturization and embedding of electronics for microcomputing, communication and sensor/actuator systems, have fertilized the pervasion of technology in...
Alois Ferscha, Andreas Riener
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
100views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
The price of uncertainty
We study the degree to which small fluctuations in costs in wellstudied potential games can impact the result of natural best-response and improved-response dynamics. We call thi...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
SOUPS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Revealing hidden context: improving mental models of personal firewall users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on th...
Fahimeh Raja, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A real system evaluation of hardware atomicity for software speculation
In this paper we evaluate the atomic region compiler abstraction by incorporating it into a commercial system. We find that atomic regions are simple and intuitive to integrate i...
Naveen Neelakantam, David R. Ditzel, Craig B. Zill...
DATE
2008
IEEE
165views Hardware» more  DATE 2008»
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TinyTimber, Reactive Objects in C for Real-Time Embedded Systems
Embedded systems are often operating under hard real-time constraints. Such systems are naturally described as time-bound reactions to external events, a point of view made manife...
Per Lindgren, Johan Eriksson, Simon Aittamaa, Joha...