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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Sharing experiences to learn user characteristics in dynamic environments with sparse data
This paper investigates the problem of estimating the value of probabilistic parameters needed for decision making in environments in which an agent, operating within a multi-agen...
David Sarne, Barbara J. Grosz
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Privacy in the open: how attention mediates awareness and privacy in open-plan offices
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Kirstie Hawkey
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Solving the starting problem: device drivers as self-describing artifacts
Run-time conflicts can affect even the most rigorously tested software systems. A reliance on execution-based testing makes it prohibitively costly to test every possible interac...
Michael F. Spear, Tom Roeder, Orion Hodson, Galen ...
SOSP
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
FS2: dynamic data replication in free disk space for improving disk performance and energy consumption
Disk performance is increasingly limited by its head positioning latencies, i.e., seek time and rotational delay. To reduce the head positioning latencies, we propose a novel tech...
Hai Huang, Wanda Hung, Kang G. Shin
EMSOFT
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using resource reservation techniques for power-aware scheduling
Minimizing energy consumption is an important issue in the design of real-time embedded systems. As many embedded systems are powered by rechargeable batteries, the goal is to ext...
Claudio Scordino, Giuseppe Lipari