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USENIX
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Robust, Portable I/O Scheduling with the Disk Mimic
We propose a new approach for I/O scheduling that performs on-line simulation of the underlying disk. When simulation is integrated within a system, three key challenges must be a...
Florentina I. Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing multiparty interaction support in Elva, an embodied tour guide
Although social research into group interaction has flourished since the 20th century, the technology of embodied conversational agents for handling multiparty interaction is stil...
Jun Zheng, Xiang Yuan, Yam San Chee
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
A Model for the Emergence and Diffusion of Software Standards
The economic impact of the growth dynamic of standards is often described from a macroeconomic point of view, employing network effect theory and models dealing with externalities...
Tim Stockheim, Michael Schwind, Wolfgang Köni...
AAAI
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Visual Contextual Advertising: Bringing Textual Advertisements to Images
Advertising in the case of textual Web pages has been studied extensively by many researchers. However, with the increasing amount of multimedia data such as image, audio and vide...
Yuqiang Chen, Ou Jin, Gui-Rong Xue, Jia Chen, Qian...
SI3D
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Incorporating dynamic real objects into immersive virtual environments
We present algorithms that enable virtual objects to interact with and respond to virtual representations, avatars, of real objects. These techniques allow dynamic real objects, s...
Benjamin Lok, Samir Naik, Mary C. Whitton, Frederi...