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CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Ethnographic interviews guide design of ford vehicles website
This case study describes ethnographic interviews with vehicle buyers to learn how they make purchase decisions. The research was conducted for J. Walter Thompson (JWT), the digit...
Lori Anschuetz, Stephanie Rosenbaum
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Implementing Software on Resource-Constrained Mobile Sensors: Experiences with Impala and ZebraNet
ZebraNet is a mobile, wireless sensor network in which nodes move throughout an environment working to gather and process information about their surroundings [10]. As in many sen...
Ting Liu, Christopher M. Sadler, Pei Zhang, Margar...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Kivati: Fast Detection and Prevention of Atomicity Violations
Bugs in concurrent programs are extremely difficult to find and fix during testing. In this paper, we propose Kivati, which can efficiently detect and prevent atomicity violat...
Lee Chew, David Lie
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic and adaptive updates of non-quiescent subsystems in commodity operating system kernels
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic software updates: a VM-centric approach
Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...