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PUC
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Towards understanding how to design for social play in exertion games
Players invest significant physical effort when playing exertion games. In addition to improving physical health, exertion games are also believed to facilitate social play amongs...
Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs, Frank Vetere
VLDB
1999
ACM
112views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
14 years 2 months ago
Context-Based Prefetch for Implementing Objects on Relations
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
Philip A. Bernstein, Shankar Pal, David Shutt
CIKM
1994
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Intelligent Caching: Selecting, Representing, and Reusing Data in an Information Server
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Yigal Arens, Craig A. Knoblock
SBACPAD
2007
IEEE
121views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
DTA-C: A Decoupled multi-Threaded Architecture for CMP Systems
One way to exploit Thread Level Parallelism (TLP) is to use architectures that implement novel multithreaded execution models, like Scheduled DataFlow (SDF). This latter model pro...
Roberto Giorgi, Zdravko Popovic, Nikola Puzovic
CCE
2005
13 years 10 months ago
Process industry supply chains: Advances and challenges
A large body of work exists in process industry supply chain optimisation. We describe the state of the art of research in infrastructure design, modelling and analysis and planni...
Nilay Shah