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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi
VLDB
2006
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Succinct representation of flexible and privacy-preserving access rights
Abstract We explore the problem of portable and flexible privacy preserving access rights that permit access to a large collection of digital goods. Privacy-preserving access contr...
Marina Blanton, Mikhail J. Atallah
SC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Kepler + Hadoop: a general architecture facilitating data-intensive applications in scientific workflow systems
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Jianwu Wang, Daniel Crawl, Ilkay Altintas
PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Runtime checking of serializability in software transactional memory
Abstract--Ensuring the correctness of complex implementations of software transactional memory (STM) is a daunting task. Attempts have been made to formally verify STMs, but these ...
Arnab Sinha, Sharad Malik