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PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
NePalTM: design and implementation of nested parallelism for transactional memory systems
Abstract. Transactional memory (TM) promises to simplify construction of parallel applications by allowing programmers to reason about interactions between concurrently executing c...
Haris Volos, Adam Welc, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Ta...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 19 days ago
On Mechanism Design without Payments for Throughput Maximization
—It is well-known that the overall efficiency of a distributed system can suffer if the participating entities seek to maximize their individual performance. Consequently, mecha...
Thomas Moscibroda, Stefan Schmid
EICS
2009
ACM
16 years 15 days ago
TnToolkit: a design and analysis tool for ambiguous, QWERTY, and on-screen keypads
The pervasive use of ambiguous keypads for mobile text entry necessitates examination of their performance characteristics. This paper presents TnToolkit – a self-contained tool...
Steven J. Castellucci, I. Scott MacKenzie
PETRA
2009
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Design and prototype of a device to engage cognitively disabled older adults in visual artwork
We investigate technological solutions for arts therapists who work with older adults with cognitive disabilities, such as Alzheimer’s disease. We present ethnographic analysis ...
Scott Blunsden, Brandi Richards, Jennifer Boger, A...
AGILEDC
2008
IEEE
16 years 14 days ago
Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies are Being Successfully Integrated in Industry
A core principle of Agile development is to satisfy the customer by providing valuable software on an early and continuous basis. For a software application to be valuable it shou...
David Fox, Jonathan Sillito, Frank Maurer