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CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Private Buddy Search: Enabling Private Spatial Queries in Social Networks
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
SOSP
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
IFM
2005
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Embedding the Stable Failures Model of CSP in PVS
We present an embedding of the stable failures model of CSP in the PVS theorem prover. Our work, extending a previous embedding of the traces model of CSP in [6], provides a platfo...
Kun Wei, James Heather
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Predicate Control for Active Debugging of Distributed Programs
Existing approaches to debugging distributed systems involve a cycle of passive observation followed by computation replaying. We propose predicate control as an active approach t...
Ashis Tarafdar, Vijay K. Garg
FAABS
2000
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Modeling and Programming Devices and Web Agents
This paper integrates research in robot programming and reasoning about action with research in model-based reasoning about physical systems to provide a capability for modeling an...
Sheila A. McIlraith