– Communication overhead is one of the dominant factors that affect performance in high-performance computing systems. To reduce the negative impact of communication, programmers...
This paper surveys and places into perspective a number of results concerning the D-BSP (Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel) model of computation, a variant of the popular BSP ...
Gianfranco Bilardi, Carlo Fantozzi, Andrea Pietrac...
We introduce an educational toy, called curlybot, as the basis for a new class of toys aimed at children in their early stages of development – ages four and up. curlybot is an ...
Phil Frei, Victor Su, Bakhtiar Mikhak, Hiroshi Ish...
Narrative structure models are useful tools for understanding how and why narratives of any medium affect an audience's level of participation in their role of story reconstr...
Abstract. Many environments in which people and computer agents interact involve deploying resources to accomplish tasks and satisfy goals. This paper investigates the way that the...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart...