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SAC
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
LighTS: a lightweight, customizable tuple space supporting context-aware applications
The tuple space model inspired by Linda has recently been rediscovered by distributed middleware. Moreover, some researchers also applied it in the challenging scenarios involving...
Gian Pietro Picco, Davide Balzarotti, Paolo Costa
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Helper locks for fork-join parallel programming
Helper locks allow programs with large parallel critical sections, called parallel regions, to execute more efficiently by enlisting processors that might otherwise be waiting on ...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Jim Sukha
BMCBI
2005
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14 years 9 months ago
GeneKeyDB: A lightweight, gene-centric, relational database to support data mining environments
Background: The analysis of biological data is greatly enhanced by existing or emerging databases. Most existing databases, with few exceptions are not designed to easily support ...
S. A. Kirov, X. Peng, E. Baker, D. Schmoyer, B. Zh...
WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Anycast-aware transport for content delivery networks
Anycast-based content delivery networks (CDNs) have many properties that make them ideal for the large scale distribution of content on the Internet. However, because routing chan...
Zakaria Al-Qudah, Seungjoon Lee, Michael Rabinovic...
CHI
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Women go with the (optical) flow
Previous research reported interesting gender effects involving specific benefits for females navigating with wider fields of view on large displays. However, it was not clear wha...
Desney S. Tan, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...