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APPROX
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Weighted Sum Coloring in Batch Scheduling of Conflicting Jobs
Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
Leah Epstein, Magnús M. Halldórsson,...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
SENSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating a BASIC approach to sensor network node programming
Sensor networks have the potential to empower domain experts from a wide range of fields. However, presently they are notoriously difficult for these domain experts to program, ...
J. Scott Miller, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick
NETGAMES
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Applying database replication to multi-player online games
Multi-player Online Games (MOGs) have emerged as popular data intensive applications in recent years. Being used by many players simultaneously, they require a high degree of faul...
Yi Lin, Bettina Kemme, Marta Patiño-Mart&ia...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Defeating return-oriented rootkits with "Return-Less" kernels
Targeting the operating system (OS) kernels, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocki...
Jinku Li, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Michael C. Grace...