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AGENTS
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Cognition and Affect: Architectures and Tools
Which agent architectures are capable of justifying descriptions in terms of the `higher level' mental concepts applicable to human beings? We propose a new kind of architect...
Aaron Sloman, Brian Logan
SIGMETRICS
1996
ACM
118views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1996»
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Integrating Performance Monitoring and Communication in Parallel Computers
A large and increasing gap exists between processor and memory speeds in scalable cache-coherent multiprocessors. To cope with this situation, programmers and compiler writers mus...
Margaret Martonosi, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich
VLDB
1993
ACM
107views Database» more  VLDB 1993»
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Recovering from Main-Memory Lapses
Recovery activities, like logging, checkpointing and restart, are used to restore a database to a consistent state after a system crash has occurred. Recovery related overhead is ...
H. V. Jagadish, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan
LPNMR
1990
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
The meaning of Negative Premises in Transition System Specifications
We present a general theory for the use of negative premises in the rules of Transition System Specifications (TSSs). We formulate a criterion that should be satisfied by a TSS in ...
Roland N. Bol, Jan Friso Groote
ASSETS
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
WebinSitu: a comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior
Web browsing is inefficient for blind web users because of persistent accessibility problems, but the extent of these problems and their practical effects from the perspective of ...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Anna Cavender, Jeremy T. Brudvi...