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PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
AVI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Stitching: pen gestures that span multiple displays
Stitching is a new interaction technique that allows users to combine pen-operated mobile devices with wireless networking by using pen gestures that span multiple displays. To st...
Ken Hinckley, Gonzalo Ramos, François Guimb...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
142views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Exploiting manufacturing variations for compensating environment-induced clock drift in time synchronization
Time synchronization is an essential service in distributed computing and control systems. It is used to enable tasks such as synchronized data sampling and accurate time-offlight...
Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Jonathan Friedma...
RTAS
1997
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
QoS Negotiation in Real-Time Systems and Its Application to Automated Flight Control
ÐReal-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are violat...
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ella M. Atkins, Kang G. Shin
DSN
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
On the Quality of Service of Failure Detectors
ÐWe study the quality of service (QoS) of failure detectors. By QoS, we mean a specification that quantifies 1) how fast the failure detector detects actual failures and 2) how we...
Wei Chen, Sam Toueg, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera