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XPU
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
An Agile Approach to a Legacy System
We describe how a small, successful, self-selected XP team approached a seemingly intractable problem with panache, flair and immodesty. We rewrote a legacy application by deliver...
Chris Stevenson, Andy Pols
MIR
2003
ACM
213views Multimedia» more  MIR 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
Replication algorithms to retrieve scalable streaming media over Content Delivery Networks
CDN (Content Delivery Networks) improves end-user performance by replicating web contents on a group of geographically distributed content servers. Replication Algorithm plays an ...
Zhou Su, Jiro Katto, Yasuhiko Yasuda
CF
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Variant-based competitive parallel execution of sequential programs
Competitive parallel execution (CPE) is a simple yet attractive technique to improve the performance of sequential programs on multi-core and multi-processor systems. A sequential...
Oliver Trachsel, Thomas R. Gross
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Can multipath mitigate power law delays?: effects of parallelism on tail performance
—Parallelism has often been used to improve the reliability and efficiency of a variety of different engineering systems. In this paper, we quantify the efficiency of paralleli...
Jian Tan, Wei Wei, Bo Jiang, Ness Shroff, Donald F...
ITS
2010
Springer
157views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
A Computational Model of Accelerated Future Learning through Feature Recognition
Accelerated future learning, in which learning proceeds more effectively and more rapidly because of prior learning, is considered to be one of the most interesting measures of ro...
Nan Li, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger