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IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Reducing the run-time of MCMC programs by multithreading on SMP architectures
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Agent-Based Grid Load Balancing Using Performance-Driven Task Scheduling
Load balancing is a key concern when developing parallel and distributed computing applications. The emergence of computational grids extends this problem, where issues of cross-d...
Junwei Cao, Daniel P. Spooner, Stephen A. Jarvis, ...
TEI
2012
ACM
285views Hardware» more  TEI 2012»
12 years 5 months ago
Sketch-a-TUI: low cost prototyping of tangible interactions using cardboard and conductive ink
Graspable tangibles are now being explored on the current generation of capacitive touch surfaces, such as the iPad and the Android tablet. Because the size and form factor is rel...
Alexander Wiethoff, Hanna Schneider, Michael Rohs,...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Precise head segmentation on arbitrary backgrounds
We propose a method for segmentation of frontal human portraits from arbitrary unknown backgrounds. Semantic information is used to project the face into a normalized reference fr...
David C. Schneider, Benjamin Prestele, Peter Eiser...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Momento: support for situated ubicomp experimentation
We present the iterative design of Momento, a tool that provides integrated support for situated evaluation of ubiquitous computing applications. We derived requirements for Momen...
Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff, Jeffrey Heer