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RTSS
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
More optimism about real-time distributed commit processing
In [6], we proposed a new commit protocol, OPT, specially designed for use in distributed firm-deadline real-time database systems. OPT allows transactions to “optimistically...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Ensemble: cooperative proximity-based authentication
Ensemble is a system that uses a collection of trusted personal devices to provide proximity-based authentication in pervasive environments. Users are able to securely pair their ...
Andre Kalamandeen, Adin Scannell, Eyal de Lara, An...
PRESENCE
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
EyeTap Devices for Augmented, Deliberately Diminished, or Otherwise Altered Visual Perception of Rigid Planar Patches of Real-Wo
Diminished reality is as important as augmented reality, and both are possible with a device called the Reality Mediator. Over the past two decades, we have designed, built, worn,...
Steve Mann, James Fung
CORR
2010
Springer
168views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
In Cloud, Can Scientific Communities Benefit from the Economies of Scale?
The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud c...
Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Weisong Shi, Yi Liang
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Semi-automating small-scale source code reuse via structural correspondence
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their...
Rylan Cottrell, Robert J. Walker, Jörg Denzin...