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1999
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
Improving memory hierarchy performance for irregular applications
The performance of irregular applications on modern computer systems is hurt by the wide gap between CPU and memory speeds because these applications typically underutilize multi-...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, David B. Whalley, Ken Kenn...
ICPADS
1998
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
One-Phase Commit: Does it make Sense?
1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the abs...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral
HT
1998
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
XHMBS: A Formal Model to Support Hypermedia Specification
This paper introduces XHMBS (the eXtended Hyperdocument Model Based on Statecharts) to support the formal specification of general hypermedia applications. XHMBS uses a novel form...
Fabiano Borges Paulo, Marcelo Augusto Santos Turin...
IUI
1998
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Coherent Gestures, Locomotion, and Speech in Life-like Pedagogical Agents
Life-likeanimatedinterfaceagentsforknowledge-basedlearning environments can provide timely, customized advice to support students’ problem solving. Because of their strong visua...
Stuart G. Towns, Jennifer L. Voerman, Charles B. C...
INFOCOM
1997
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Investigation of the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC)
Analysis of the drafi IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) standard is needed to characterize the expected performance of the standard’s ad hoc and infrastructure netw...
Brian P. Crow, Indra Widjaja, Jeong Geun Kim, Pres...