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HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
xFS: A Wide Area Mass Storage File System
The current generation of le systems are inadequate in facing the new technological challenges of wide area networks and massive storage. xFS is a prototype le system we are devel...
Randolph Y. Wang, Thomas E. Anderson
HICSS
2008
IEEE
122views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
A Meta-theory for Understanding IS in Socio-technical Systems
Information systems (IS) research often attempts to examine and explain how technology leads to outcomes through usage of information technology (IT). Although extensive research ...
Dominic M. Thomas, Saurabh Gupta, Robert P. Bostro...
AAAI
2006
14 years 9 days ago
Collective Construction Using Lego Robots
hibition: Extended Abstract Social insects, such as ants and termites, collectively build large and complex structures, with many individuals following simple rules and no centrali...
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Ra...
ICCAD
1994
IEEE
137views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1994»
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic scheduling and synchronization synthesis of concurrent digital systems under system-level constraints
We present in this paper a novel control synthesis technique for system-level specifications that are better described as a set of concurrent synchronous descriptions, their synch...
Claudionor José Nunes Coelho Jr., Giovanni ...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Emergent properties of referral systems
Agents must decide with whom to interact, which is nontrivial when no central directories are available. A classical decentralized approach is referral systems, where agents adapt...
Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh