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DAMON
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A new look at the roles of spinning and blocking
Database engines face growing scalability challenges as core counts exponentially increase each processor generation, and the efficiency of synchronization primitives used to prot...
Ryan Johnson, Manos Athanassoulis, Radu Stoica, An...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
166views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Analysis, Design and Control of a Planar Micro-robot Driven by two Centripetal-force Actuators
– This paper presents the motion analysis, design and position control of a novel, low cost, sliding micro-robot, which is actuated by centripetal forces generated by robot mount...
P. Vartholomeos, Evangelos Papadopoulos
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
142views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting manufacturing variations for compensating environment-induced clock drift in time synchronization
Time synchronization is an essential service in distributed computing and control systems. It is used to enable tasks such as synchronized data sampling and accurate time-offlight...
Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Jonathan Friedma...
PVLDB
2010
138views more  PVLDB 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
The Case for Determinism in Database Systems
Replication is a widely used method for achieving high availability in database systems. Due to the nondeterminism inherent in traditional concurrency control schemes, however, sp...
Alexander Thomson, Daniel J. Abadi
LCTRTS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Translating concurrent action oriented specifications to synchronous guarded actions
Concurrent Action-Oriented Specifications (CAOS) model the behavior of a synchronous hardware circuit as asynchronous guarded at an abstraction level higher than the Register Tran...
Jens Brandt, Klaus Schneider, Sandeep K. Shukla