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INTETAIN
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Robosonic: Randomness-Based Manipulation of Sounds Assisted by Robots
In this text, we intend to explore the possibilities of sound manipulation in a context of augmented reality (AR) through the use of robots. We use the random behaviour of robots i...
Filipe Costa Luz, Rui Pereira Jorge, Vasco Bila
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Gain of Overbooking
This paper analyzes the effect of overbooking for scheduling systems in a commercial environment. In this scenario each job is associated with a release time and a finishing deadl...
Georg Birkenheuer, André Brinkmann, Holger ...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
GroupBanter: Supporting Serendipitous Group Conversations with IM
This paper describes GroupBanter, a tool for supporting serendipitous group conversations using instant messaging. We investigate the potential of ephemeral group conversations by ...
Kori Inkpen, Steve Whittaker, Mary Czerwinski, Rol...
ISORC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Collaborative Scheduling of Distributable Real-Time Threads in Dynamic, Networked Embedded Systems
Some emerging networked embedded real-time applications have relatively long reaction time magnitudes—e.g., milliseconds to minutes. These longer execution time magnitudes allow...
Sherif Fadel Fahmy, Binoy Ravindran, E. Douglas Je...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Tiresias: Black-Box Failure Prediction in Distributed Systems
Faults in distributed systems can result in errors that manifest in several ways, potentially even in parts of the system that are not collocated with the root cause. These manife...
Andrew W. Williams, Soila M. Pertet, Priya Narasim...