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MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Self-monitoring for sensor networks
Local monitoring is an effective mechanism for the security of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Existing schemes assume the existence of sufficient number of active nodes to carry...
Dezun Dong, Yunhao Liu, Xiangke Liao
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Predicting replicated database scalability from standalone database profiling
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
STOC
2009
ACM
172views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 12 days ago
Linear time approximation schemes for the Gale-Berlekamp game and related minimization problems
We design a linear time approximation scheme for the GaleBerlekamp Switching Game and generalize it to a wider class of dense fragile minimization problems including the Nearest C...
Marek Karpinski, Warren Schudy
ECSCW
1993
15 years 1 months ago
Do Categories Have Politics? The Language/Action Perspective Reconsidered
: Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries wi...
Lucy A. Suchman
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
PV-PPV: Parameter Variability Aware, Automatically Extracted, Nonlinear Time-Shifted Oscillator Macromodels
Abstract-- The PPV is a robust phase domain macromodel for oscillators. It has been proven to predict oscillators' responses correctly under small signal perturbations, and ca...
Zhichun Wang, Xiaolue Lai, Jaijeet S. Roychowdhury