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PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
TEDU
2008
126views Education» more  TEDU 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Designing an Educational Game: Case Study of 'Europe 2045'
This paper presents a theoretical framework, which has been adopted in designing an on-line multi-player strategy game Europe 2045. Europe 2045 is an educational tool for high scho...
Vít Sisler, Cyril Brom
WSC
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Forecasting Investment Opportunities Through Dynamic Simulation
Outcomes of this modeling research are the ability to facilitate comparisons of investment alternatives or strategies; regarding primary targets, possible annual revenues, promoti...
Stephen R. Parker
IROS
2008
IEEE
230views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Visual recognition of grasps for human-to-robot mapping
— This paper presents a vision based method for grasp classification. It is developed as part of a Programming by Demonstration (PbD) system for which recognition of objects and...
Hedvig Kjellström, Javier Romero, Danica Krag...
CDC
2009
IEEE
150views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 16 days ago
Cooperative adaptive sampling via approximate entropy maximization
— This work deals with a group of mobile sensors sampling a spatiotemporal random field whose mean is unknown and covariance is known up to a scaling parameter. The Bayesian pos...
Rishi Graham, Jorge Cortés