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CHI
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
124views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
Query suspend and resume
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Improving the Latency of 802.11 hand-offs using Neighbor Graphs
The 802.11 IEEE Standard has enabled low cost and effective wireless LAN services (WLAN). With the sales and deployment of WLAN based networks exploding, many people believe that ...
Minho Shin, Arunesh Mishra, William A. Arbaugh
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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
157views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Delay tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet
Many emerging scientific and industrial applications require transferring multiple Tbytes of data on a daily basis. Examples include pushing scientific data from particle accele...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Pablo Ro...
IROS
2006
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Finding Resonance: Adaptive Frequency Oscillators for Dynamic Legged Locomotion
— There is much to gain from providing walking machines with passive dynamics, e.g. by including compliant elements in the structure. These elements can offer interesting propert...
Jonas Buchli, Fumiya Iida, Auke Jan Ijspeert