Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
Multicores are becoming ubiquitous, not only in general-purpose but also embedded computing. This trend is a reflexion of contemporary embedded applications posing steadily incre...
Abhik Sarkar, Frank Mueller, Harini Ramaprasad, Si...
The StreamIt programming model has been proposed to exploit parallelism in streaming applications on general purpose multicore architectures. The StreamIt graphs describe task, da...
Abhishek Udupa, R. Govindarajan, Matthew J. Thazhu...
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...