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USENIX
1993
15 years 5 months ago
AudioFile: A Network-Transparent System for Distributed Audio Applications
AudioFile is a portable, device-independent, network-transparent system for computer audio systems. to the X Window System, it provides an abstract audio device interface with a s...
Jim Gettys, Thoms M. Levergood, Andrew C. Payne, L...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Virtual Organizing: Using Threads to Coordinate Distributed Work
This paper explores the critical role of conversational threads in facilitating the ongoing, distributed work of one virtual organization. In studying the electronic mail exchange...
JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Stephanie L. Wo...
TPDS
2002
112views more  TPDS 2002»
15 years 3 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
CLUSTER
2002
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Online Prediction of the Running Time of Tasks
Abstract. We describe and evaluate the Running Time Advisor (RTA), a system that can predict the running time of a compute-bound task on a typical shared, unreserved commodity host...
Peter A. Dinda
CONEXT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Proactive replication in distributed storage systems using machine availability estimation
Distributed storage systems provide data availability by means of redundancy. To assure a given level of availability in case of node failures, new redundant fragments need to be ...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack, Taoufik En-Na...