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ISCA
2010
IEEE
240views Hardware» more  ISCA 2010»
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Modeling critical sections in Amdahl's law and its implications for multicore design
This paper presents a fundamental law for parallel performance: it shows that parallel performance is not only limited by sequential code (as suggested by Amdahl’s law) but is a...
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout
CLOUD
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Differential virtual time (DVT): rethinking I/O service differentiation for virtual machines
This paper investigates what it entails to provide I/O service differentiation and performance isolation for virtual machines on individual multicore nodes in cloud platforms. Sh...
Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan
PODS
2010
ACM
242views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Certain answers for XML queries
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Claire David, Leonid Libkin, Filip Murlak
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
154views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
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Ranking games that have competitiveness-based strategies
This paper studies —from the perspective of efficient computation— a type of competition that is widespread throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, higher education, politic...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldberg, Piotr Kryst...