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2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Database replication policies for dynamic content applications
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel
ICCD
2008
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
CrashTest: A fast high-fidelity FPGA-based resiliency analysis framework
— Extreme scaling practices in silicon technology are quickly leading to integrated circuit components with limited reliability, where phenomena such as early-transistor failures...
Andrea Pellegrini, Kypros Constantinides, Dan Zhan...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Distributing private data in challenged network environments
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...
Azarias Reda, Brian D. Noble, Yidnekachew Haile
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Where there's a will there's a way: mobile media sharing in urban india
We present the results of a qualitative study of the sharing and consumption of entertainment media on low-cost mobile phones in urban India, a practice which has evolved into a v...
Thomas N. Smyth, Satish Kumar, Indrani Medhi, Kent...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Let's play chinese characters: mobile learning approaches via culturally inspired group games
In many developing countries such as India and China, low educational levels often hinder economic empowerment. In this paper, we argue that mobile learning games can play an impo...
Feng Tian, Fei Lv, Jingtao Wang, Hongan Wang, Wenc...