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CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Cultural usability: a localization study of mobile text messaging use
The success of mobile text messaging poses many questions for usability studies. Considering the inherent usability weaknesses of mobile phones such as the small display, poor inp...
Huatong Sun
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled...
Michael Burrows
VLDB
2008
ACM
156views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Implementing mapping composition
Mapping composition is a fundamental operation in metadata driven applications. Given a mapping over schemas 1 and 2 and a mapping over schemas 2 and 3, the composition problem is...
Philip A. Bernstein, Todd J. Green, Sergey Melnik,...
DCC
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
An Estimation-Theoretic Interpretation of Video Rate Distortion Optimization with Lagrangian Formulation
Rate distortion optimization with Lagrangian formulation is widely used in video encoder control and has proved effective in achieving a good trade-off between coding efficiency a...
Zhen Li, Alexis Michael Tourapis
ICCD
2008
IEEE
121views Hardware» more  ICCD 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Characterization and design of sequential circuit elements to combat soft error
- This paper performs analysis and design of latches and flip-flops while considering the effect of event upsets caused by energetic particle hits. First it is shown that the conve...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Massoud Pedram