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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
MapReduce optimization using regulated dynamic prioritization
We present a system for allocating resources in shared data and compute clusters that improves MapReduce job scheduling in three ways. First, the system uses regulated and user-as...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Interweaving mobile games with everyday life
We introduce a location?based game called Feeding Yoshi that provides an example of seamful design, in which key characteristics of its underlying technologies--the coverage and s...
Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Louise Barkhuus, Mal...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sherlock: automatically locating objects for humans
Over the course of a day a human interacts with tens or hundreds of individual objects. Many of these articles are nomadic, relying on human memory to manually index, inventory, o...
Aditya Nemmaluri, Mark D. Corner, Prashant J. Shen...
CLUSTER
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Shell over a Cluster (SHOC): Towards Achieving Single System Image via the Shell
With dramatic improvements in cost-performance, the use of clusters of personal computers is fast becoming widespread. For ease of use and management, a Single System Image (SSI) ...
C. M. Tan, C. P. Tan, Weng-Fai Wong
EMSOFT
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Initiating a design pattern catalog for embedded network systems
In the domain of desktop software, design patterns have had a profound impact; they are applied ubiquitously across a broad range of applications. Patterns serve both to promulgat...
Sally K. Wahba, Jason O. Hallstrom, Neelam Soundar...