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IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Locks: Combining Transactions and Locks for Efficient Concurrency
Transactional memory is being advanced as an alternative to traditional lock-based synchronization for concurrent programming. Transactional memory simplifies the programming mode...
Takayuki Usui, Reimer Behrends, Jacob Evans, Yanni...
PODC
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Iterative approximate byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs
This paper proves a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of iterative algorithms that achieve approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs, where e...
Nitin H. Vaidya, Lewis Tseng, Guanfeng Liang
ICFP
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
A sound (and complete) model of contracts
Even in statically typed languages it is useful to have certain invariants checked dynamically. Findler and Felleisen gave an algorithm for dynamically checking expressive higher-...
Matthias Blume, David A. McAllester
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On compositional Image Alignment, with an application to Active Appearance Models
Efficient and accurate fitting of Active Appearance Models (AAM) is a key requirement for many applications. The most efficient fitting algorithm today is Inverse Compositiona...
Brian Amberg, Andrew Blake, Thomas Vetter
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
A Spreadsheet Algebra for a Direct Data Manipulation Query Interface
— A spreadsheet-like “direct manipulation” interface is more intuitive for many non-technical database users compared to traditional alternatives, such as visual query builde...
Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish