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DAMON
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A new look at the roles of spinning and blocking
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...
NBIS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improving the Robustness of Wireless Device Pairing Using Hyphen-Delimited Numeric Comparison
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 ...
Ambarish Karole, Nitesh Saxena
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
103views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks
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...
PSIVT
2007
Springer
245views Multimedia» more  PSIVT 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Grayscale Template-Matching Invariant to Rotation, Scale, Translation, Brightness and Contrast
In this paper, we consider the grayscale template-matching problem, invariant to rotation, scale, translation, brightness and contrast, without previous operations that discard gra...
Hae Yong Kim, Sidnei Alves de Araújo
CIG
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fun in Slots
— 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...
Kevin Burns