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USENIX
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Social Networks and Social Information Filtering on Digg
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
Kristina Lerman
C5
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
SuperSwiki - Bringing collaboration to the class room
SuperSwiki is a not yet well defined term. Its origins go back to Ward Cunningham's Wiki and its Squeak variant, the Swiki. It provides a place to share and edit web pages, f...
Michael Rüger
SIGUCCS
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Escaping the quicksand and getting back on the trail of team projects
Working in a team environment can be either an efficient and productive means of completing projects or a nightmare where the project never seems to end. Most of us have been a pa...
Steven K. Brawn, Kelly Caye, R. Mark Koan
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Background variability modeling for statistical layout analysis
Geometric layout analysis plays an important role in document image understanding. Many algorithms known in literature work well on standard document images, achieving high text l...
Faisal Shafait, Joost van Beusekom, Daniel Keysers...