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WIKIS
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
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ISCA
2008
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Improving NAND Flash Based Disk Caches
Flash is a widely used storage device that provides high density and low power, appealing properties for general purpose computing. Today, its usual application is in portable spe...
Taeho Kgil, David Roberts, Trevor N. Mudge
KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Towards supporting awareness of indirect conflicts across software configuration management workspaces
Workspace awareness techniques have been proposed to enhance the effectiveness of software configuration management systems in coordinating parallel work. These techniques share i...
Anita Sarma, Gerald Bortis, André van der H...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Characterization of Computational Grid Resources Using Low-Level Benchmarks
An important factor that needs to be taken into account by end-users and systems (schedulers, resource brokers, policy brokers) when mapping applications to the Grid, is the perfo...
George Tsouloupas, Marios D. Dikaiakos
LCN
2006
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Analysis of Exponential Backoff with Multipacket Reception in Wireless Networks
A collision resolution scheme is essential to the performance of a random-access wireless network. Most schemes employ exponential backoff (EB) to adjust the transmission attempt ...
Peng Xuan Zheng, Ying Jun Zhang, Soung Chang Liew