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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
249views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Worry-free database upgrades: automated model-driven evolution of schemas and complex mappings
Schema evolution is an unavoidable consequence of the application development lifecycle. The two primary schemas in an application, the client conceptual object model and the pers...
James F. Terwilliger, Philip A. Bernstein, Adi Unn...
PPOPP
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
GRace: a low-overhead mechanism for detecting data races in GPU programs
In recent years, GPUs have emerged as an extremely cost-effective means for achieving high performance. Many application developers, including those with no prior parallel program...
Mai Zheng, Vignesh T. Ravi, Feng Qin, Gagan Agrawa...
W4A
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Transforming web pages to become standard-compliant through reverse engineering
Developing Web pages following established standards can make the information more accessible, their rendering more efficient, and their processing by computer applications easier...
Benfeng Chen, Vincent Y. Shen
CE
2007
133views more  CE 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Reusable, lifelike virtual humans for mentoring and role-playing
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Edward M. Sims
ICMI
2003
Springer
131views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
TorqueBAR: an ungrounded haptic feedback device
Kinesthetic feedback is a key mechanism by which people perceive object properties during their daily tasks – particularly inertial properties. For example, transporting a glass...
Colin Swindells, Alex Unden, Tao Sang