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EUROPAR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Searching for Concurrent Design Patterns in Video Games
The transition to multicore architectures has dramatically underscored the necessity for parallelism in software. In particular, while new gaming consoles are by and large multicor...
Micah J. Best, Alexandra Fedorova, Ryan Dickie, An...
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Competitive Two-Level Adaptive Scheduling Using Resource Augmentation
Abstract. As multi-core processors proliferate, it has become more important than ever to ensure efficient execution of parallel jobs on multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we s...
Hongyang Sun, Yangjie Cao, Wen-Jing Hsu
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
CHINZ
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Digital backpacking in the museum with a SmartCard
This paper reports on the evaluation of a digitallyaugmented exhibition on the history of modern media and our experiences with the methodic approach employed. As a central elemen...
Eva Hornecker, Matthias Stifter
PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Advanced contention management for dynamic software transactional memory
The obstruction-free Dynamic Software Transactional Memory (DSTM) system of Herlihy et al. allows only one transaction at a time to acquire an object for writing. Should a second ...
William N. Scherer III, Michael L. Scott