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2009
13 years 6 months ago
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-optimizing Storage Systems
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
COLCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Uncompressed HD video for collaborative teaching - an experiment
Abstract—This article describes a distributed classroom experiment carried out by five universities in the US and Europe at the beginning of 2007. This experiment was motivated ...
Andrei Hutanu, Ravi Paruchuri, Daniel Eiland, Milo...
VRST
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Human performance in space telerobotic manipulation
This paper considers the utility of VR in the design of the interface to a space-based telerobotic manipulator. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the potential for improved ...
Philip Lamb, Dean Owen
ICCSA
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Comparison Study of Metaheuristic Techniques for Providing QoS to Avatars in DVE Systems
Abstract. Network-server architecture has become a de-facto standard for Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) systems. In these systems, a large set of remote users share a 3D vir...
Pedro Morillo, Juan M. Orduña, Marcos Fern&...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Tears and fears: modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents
Emotions play a critical role in creating engaging and believable characters to populate virtual worlds. Our goal is to create general computational models to support characters t...
Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella