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POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Feedback-directed barrier optimization in a strongly isolated STM
Speed improvements in today's processors have largely been delivered in the form of multiple cores, increasing the importance of ions that ease parallel programming. Software...
Nathan Grasso Bronson, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle O...
OTM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Decentralised Commitment for Optimistic Semantic Replication
Abstract. We study large-scale distributed cooperative systems that use optimistic replication. We represent a system as a graph of actions (operations) connected by edges that rei...
Pierre Sutra, João Barreto, Marc Shapiro
BIRTHDAY
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Retracing the Semantics of CSP
CSP was originally introduced as a parallel programming language in which sequential imperative processes execute concurrently and communicate by synchronized input and output. The...
Stephen D. Brookes
NIPS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Envelope-based Planning in Relational MDPs
A mobile robot acting in the world is faced with a large amount of sensory data and uncertainty in its action outcomes. Indeed, almost all interesting sequential decision-making d...
Natalia Hernandez-Gardiol, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
ICRA
2010
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Understanding and executing instructions for everyday manipulation tasks from the World Wide Web
Service robots will have to accomplish more and more complex, open-ended tasks and regularly acquire new skills. In this work, we propose a new approach to generating plans for su...
Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Nyga, Michael Beetz