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PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Implementation and Evaluation of Client-Side File Caching for MPI-IO
Client-side file caching has long been recognized as a file system enhancement to reduce the amount of data transfer between application processes and I/O servers. However, cach...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Privacy policies as decision-making tools: an evaluation of online privacy notices
Studies have repeatedly shown that users are increasingly concerned about their privacy when they go online. In response to both public interest and regulatory pressures, privacy ...
Carlos Jensen, Colin Potts
HT
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Personalisation in the wild: providing personalisation across semantic, social and open-web resources
One of the key motivating factors for information providers to use personalisation is to maximise the benefit to the user in accessing their content. However, traditionally such s...
Ben Steichen, Alexander O'Connor, Vincent Wade
JCDL
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Assessing tools for use with webcasts
This research assessed the effectiveness of selected interface tools in helping people respond to classic information tasks with webcasts. Rather than focus on a classic search/br...
Elaine G. Toms, Christine Dufour, Jonathan Lewis, ...