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WOSP
2004
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Early performance testing of distributed software applications
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, Wolfgang Emmerich
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
NV-Heaps: making persistent objects fast and safe with next-generation, non-volatile memories
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
188views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 11 days ago
Hybrid Mobile Robot Localization using Switching State-Space Models
—This article describes a rigorous and complete framework for the simultaneous localization and map building problem for mobile robots: the symmetries and perturbations map (SPma...
Haris Baltzakis, Panos E. Trahanias
ICFP
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
AtomCaml: first-class atomicity via rollback
We have designed, implemented, and evaluated AtomCaml, an extension to Objective Caml that provides a synchronization primitive for atomic (transactional) execution of code. A fir...
Michael F. Ringenburg, Dan Grossman
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...