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ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Devirtualizable virtual machines enabling general, single-node, online maintenance
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
David E. Lowell, Yasushi Saito, Eileen J. Samberg
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Collaborative model merging
Models are important artifacts in the software development life-cycle and are often the result of a collaborative activity of multiple developers. When multiple developers modify ...
Maximilian Koegel, Helmut Naughton, Jonas Helming,...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Putting the users center stage: role playing and low-fi prototyping enable end users to design mobile systems
This paper sums up lessons learned from a sequence of cooperative design workshops where end users were enabled to design mobile systems through scenario building, role playing, a...
Dag Svanaes, Gry Seland
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Non-Local Box Complexity and Secure Function Evaluation
ABSTRACT. A non-local box is an abstract device into which Alice and Bob input bits x and y respectively and receive outputs a and b respectively, where a, b are uniformly distribu...
Marc Kaplan, Iordanis Kerenidis, Sophie Laplante, ...
COMSWARE
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust Distributed Applications
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...