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HUC
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Examining micro-payments for participatory sensing data collections
The rapid adoption of mobile devices that are able to capture and transmit a wide variety of sensing modalities (media and location) has enabled a new data collection paradigm - p...
Sasank Reddy, Deborah Estrin, Mark H. Hansen, Mani...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Leveraging parallel nesting in transactional memory
Exploiting the emerging reality of affordable multi-core architeces through providing programmers with simple abstractions that would enable them to easily turn their sequential p...
João Barreto, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Paulo ...
IOR
2007
100views more  IOR 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Competition in Service Industries
We analyze a general market for an industry of competing service facilities. Firms differentiate themselves by their price levels and the waiting time their customers experience,...
Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen
ALIFE
2004
14 years 9 months ago
Building Artificial Life for Play
Toys and play-things are often engineered to replicate the character of real organisms. In the past, inventors often lavished great expense on their life-like automata, their cons...
Alan Dorin
MICRO
2009
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
BulkCompiler: high-performance sequential consistency through cooperative compiler and hardware support
A platform that supported Sequential Consistency (SC) for all codes — not only the well-synchronized ones — would simplify the task of programmers. Recently, several hardware ...
Wonsun Ahn, Shanxiang Qi, M. Nicolaides, Josep Tor...