Sciweavers

90 search results - page 5 / 18
» The Box: A Replacement for Files
Sort
View
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improving query I/O performance by permuting and refining block request sequences
The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Optimizing File Availability in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
Abstract— A fundamental paradigm in peer-to-peer (P2P) content distribution is that of a large community of intermittentlyconnected nodes that cooperate to share files. Because ...
Jussi Kangasharju, Keith W. Ross, David A. Turner
IWMM
1992
Springer
85views Hardware» more  IWMM 1992»
13 years 11 months ago
An Implementation of an Applicative File System
A purely functional le system has been built on top of pure Scheme. It provides persistent structures and massive storage expected of le systems, without explicit side-e ects like ...
Brian C. Heck, David S. Wise
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Physical heart in a virtual body
In this video we present a special guitar that combines physical acoustic properties with virtual capabilities. A wooden resonator - a unique, replaceable piece of wood that gives...
Amit Zoran, Marco Coppiardi, Paula Aguilera, Patti...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 10 days ago
Coordination of Multiple Mobile Robots in an Object Carrying Task using Implicit Communication
Abstract — This paper addresses the problem of coordinating multiple mobile robots in a tightly coupled task by means of implicit communication. This approach allows the developm...
Guilherme A. S. Pereira, Bruno S. Pimentel, Luiz C...