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MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
Wenyu Wang, Li Zhao, Ruixi Yuan
FPL
2008
Springer
111views Hardware» more  FPL 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Sampling from the exponential distribution using independent Bernoulli variates
The exponential distribution is a key distribution in many event-driven Monte-Carlo simulations, where it is used to model the time between random events in the system. This paper...
David B. Thomas, Wayne Luk
CODES
2009
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Building heterogeneous reconfigurable systems with a hardware microkernel
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have long held the promise of allowing designers to create systems with performance levels close to custom circuits but with a softwarelike ...
Jason Agron, David L. Andrews
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Versatile annotation and publication quality visualization of protein complexes using POLYVIEW-3D
Background: Macromolecular visualization as well as automated structural and functional annotation tools play an increasingly important role in the post-genomic era, contributing ...
Aleksey A. Porollo, Jaroslaw Meller