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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Attention by proxy? issues in audience awareness for webcasts to distributed groups
Instructor/student interaction in e-learning environments can positively impact both student learning and instructor satisfaction. In online webcast lectures, however, interaction...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Clarissa Mak, Saul Greenberg,...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
eXtended Block Cache
This paper describes a new instruction-supply mechanism, called the eXtended Block Cache (XBC). The goal of the XBC is to improve on the Trace Cache (TC) hit rate, while providing...
Stéphan Jourdan, Lihu Rappoport, Yoav Almog...
ICPP
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch for Decision Support Workloads
Instruction fetch bandwidth is feared to be a major limiting factor to the performance of future wide-issue aggressive superscalars. In this paper, we focus on Database applicatio...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Carl...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Balanced binary trees for ID management and load balance in distributed hash tables
We present a low-cost, decentralized algorithm for ID management in distributed hash tables (DHTs) managed by a dynamic set of hosts. Each host is assigned an ID in the unit inter...
Gurmeet Singh Manku
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A framework for concrete reputation-systems with applications to history-based access control
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
Karl Krukow, Mogens Nielsen, Vladimiro Sassone