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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
182views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Multi-tenant databases for software as a service: schema-mapping techniques
In the implementation of hosted business services, multiple tenants are often consolidated into the same database to reduce total cost of ownership. Common practice is to map mult...
Stefan Aulbach, Torsten Grust, Dean Jacobs, Alfons...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Tolerating byzantine faults in transaction processing systems using commit barrier scheduling
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares ...
Ben Vandiver, Hari Balakrishnan, Barbara Liskov, S...
TEI
2010
ACM
179views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Feeling the beat where it counts: fostering multi-limb rhythm skills with the haptic drum kit
This paper introduces a tool known as the Haptic Drum Kit, which employs four computer-controlled vibrotactile devices, one attached to each wrist and ankle. In the applications d...
Simon Holland, Anders J. Bouwer, Mathew Dalgelish,...
LANC
2009
ACM
158views Education» more  LANC 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Enhancements to the opinion model for video-telephony applications
In this paper, we show how the proposed model in ITU-T Recommendation G.1070 “Opinion model for video-telephony applications” cannot model properly the perceptual video qualit...
Jose Joskowicz, José Carlos López-Ar...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Partial-Information Based Stochastic Control with Markovian Rewards
We consider a variant of the classic multi-armed bandit problem (MAB), which we call FEEDBACK MAB, where the reward obtained by playing each of n independent arms varies according...
Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala