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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
How to calm hyperactive agents
System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
PODS
1990
ACM
150views Database» more  PODS 1990»
15 years 10 months ago
On Being Optimistic about Real-Time Constraints
- Performancestudiesof concurrencycontrol algorithms for conventional database systems have shown that, under most operating circumstances, locking protocols outperform optimistic ...
Jayant R. Haritsa, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A service architecture for sensor data provisioning for context-aware mobile applications
One of the main issues that inhibit the development of contextaware mobile applications is the lack of systematic methods for sensor data acquisition. This lack, however, is a res...
Bernardo Gonçalves, José Gonç...
SIGOPS
2008
306views more  SIGOPS 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
virtio: towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices
The Linux Kernel currently supports at least 8 distinct virtualization systems: Xen, KVM, VMware's VMI, IBM's System p, IBM's System z, User Mode Linux, lguest and ...
Rusty Russell
ICDE
2006
IEEE
178views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Declarative Querying for Biological Sequences
The ongoing revolution in life sciences research is producing vast amounts of genetic and proteomic sequence data. Scientists want to pose increasingly complex queries on this dat...
Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel, James S. Friedman,...