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EUROSYS
2011
ACM
13 years 6 days ago
Database engines on multicores, why parallelize when you can distribute?
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Jana Gic...
CVPR
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Why I Want a Gradient Camera
We propose a camera that measures static gradients instead of static intensities. Quantizing sensed intensity differences between adjacent pixel values permits an ordinary A/D con...
Jack Tumblin, Amit K. Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
From Conceptual Models to Agent-based Simulations: Why and How
The core problem we address in this paper is how to take a declarative conceptual representation of a complex system and produce an agent-based simulation of that model. In particu...
Swaroop Vattam, Ashok K. Goel, Spencer Rugaber, Ci...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval
For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas
CCS
1993
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Why Cryptosystems Fail
Designers of cryptographic systems are at a disadvantage to most other engineers, in that information on how their systems fail is hard to get: their major users have traditionall...
Ross J. Anderson