Database engines face growing scalability challenges as core counts exponentially increase each processor generation, and the efficiency of synchronization primitives used to prot...
Ryan Johnson, Manos Athanassoulis, Radu Stoica, An...
Abstract—The operation of achieving authenticated key agreement between two human-operated mobile devices over a short range wireless communication channel, such as Bluetooth or ...
A common practice in system design is to treat features intended to enhance performance and reliability as low priority tasks by scheduling them during idle periods, with the goal...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, E...
In this paper, we consider the grayscale template-matching problem, invariant to rotation, scale, translation, brightness and contrast, without previous operations that discard gra...
— People play games for fun. Yet we are lacking a fundamental understanding of what fun is and how fun works in games and other media. For example, why do thousands of people spe...