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IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Making lockless synchronization fast: performance implications of memory reclamation
Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...
MMM
2006
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
A robust object shape prediction algorithm in the presence of white Gaussian noise
This paper presents a shape prediction algorithm in a noisy video sequence based on pixel representation in the undecimated wavelet domain. In our algorithm for tracking of user-d...
Mohammad Khansari, Hamid R. Rabiee, M. Asadi, M. G...
ACMSE
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Mobility models for vehicular ad hoc network simulations
: There is a growing interest in deployment and evaluation of routing protocols for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks (VANETs) in urban contexts. The mobility model of nodes is on...
Niranjan Potnis, Atulya Mahajan
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A comparison of chat and audio in media rich environments
This paper presents two case studies of informal group communication using multimedia conferencing that supports various media including video, audio and chat. The studies provide...
Jeremiah Scholl, John McCarthy, Rikard Harr
NSPW
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Cent, five cent, ten cent, dollar: hitting botnets where it really hurts
Spyware, Adware, Bots. In each case, there is significant evidence that there is an increasing financial motivation behind the writing and distribution of these programs. In thi...
Richard Ford, Sarah Gordon