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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
SYSTOR
2010
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
On the DMA mapping problem in direct device assignment
I/O intensive workloads running in virtual machines can suffer massive performance degradation. Direct assignment of I/O devices to virtual machines is the best performing I/O vir...
Ben-Ami Yassour, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Orit Wasserman
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 9 months ago
Handling task dependencies under strided and aliased references
The emergence of multicore processors has increased the need for simple parallel programming models usable by nonexperts. The ability to specify subparts of a bigger data structur...
Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Jesús...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Using twinning to adapt programs to alternative APIs
We describe twinning and its applications to adapting programs to alternative APIs. Twinning is a simple technique that allows programmers to specify a class of program changes, i...
Marius Nita, David Notkin
KR
2010
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
One Hundred Prisoners and a Lightbulb - Logic and Computation
This is a case-study in knowledge representation. We analyze the ‘one hundred prisoners and a lightbulb’ puzzle. In this puzzle it is relevant what the agents (prisoners) know...
Hans P. van Ditmarsch, Jan van Eijck, William Wu