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IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Competitive buffer management with packet dependencies
We introduce the problem of managing a FIFO buffer of bounded space, where arriving packets have dependencies among them. Our model is motivated by the scenario where large data f...
Alexander Kesselman, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Gabriel Sca...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Challenges and practices in deploying web acceleration solutions for distributed enterprise systems
For most Web-based applications, contents are created dynamically based on the current state of a business, such as product prices and inventory, stored in database systems. These...
Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selçuk Candan, Koji H...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Social Context of Software Maintenance
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Jonathan Sillito, Eleanor Wynn
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Towards the Development of a Simulator for Investigating the Impact of People Management Practices on Retail Performance
Models to understand the impact of management practices on retail performance are often simplistic and assume low levels of noise and linearity. Of course, in real-life, retail op...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...