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GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Energy efficient exact kNN search in wireless broadcast environments
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
Bugra Gedik, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu
SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive internet services through performance and availability control
Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...
Jean Arnaud, Sara Bouchenak
SC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Exploring many task computing in scientific workflows
One of the main advantages of using a scientific workflow management system (SWfMS) to orchestrate data flows among scientific activities is to control and register the whole work...
Eduardo S. Ogasawara, Daniel de Oliveira, Fernando...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Composite Abortable Locks
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Moir, Nir Shavit
SIGUCCS
2000
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Automating Residence Hall Internet Signups
As colleges and universities are moving into the realm of providing Internet connections to the residence dormitories (ResNet), the local help desk is becoming the focal point for...
John R. Miller, Tom Peterson