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HASE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Privacy, Preservation and Performance: The 3 P's of Distributed Data Management
Privacy, preservation and performance (“3 P’s”) are central design objectives for distributed data management systems. However, these objectives tend to compete with one ano...
Bobji Mungamuru, Hector Garcia-Molina
FGCN
2008
IEEE
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Performance Analysis of Hybrid Fingerprint Matching Methods
The fingerprint verification methods include minutiae-based and image-based methods. The minutiae-based method has been frequently used, but it has limitations in performance. Thes...
Jong Ku Kim, Seung-Hoon Chae, Sung Jin Lim, Sung B...
DSN
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Byzantine replication under attack
Existing Byzantine-resilient replication protocols satisfy two standard correctness criteria, safety and liveness, in the presence of Byzantine faults. In practice, however, fault...
Yair Amir, Brian A. Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John La...
CISIS
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Hybrid Performance Modeling and Prediction of Large-Scale Computing Systems
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
Sabri Pllana, Siegfried Benkner, Fatos Xhafa, Leon...
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A genetic algorithm for optimizing hierarchical menus
— Hierarchical menus are widely used as a standard user interface in modern applications that use GUIs. The performance of the menu depends on many factors: structure, layout, co...
Shouichi Matsui, Seiji Yamada
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
COMPASS: a programmable data prefetcher using idle GPU shaders
A traditional fixed-function graphics accelerator has evolved into a programmable general-purpose graphics processing unit over the last few years. These powerful computing cores...
Dong Hyuk Woo, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a “pivotal technology” that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the t...
Feng Chen, David A. Koufaty, Xiaodong Zhang
EICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
TnToolkit: a design and analysis tool for ambiguous, QWERTY, and on-screen keypads
The pervasive use of ambiguous keypads for mobile text entry necessitates examination of their performance characteristics. This paper presents TnToolkit – a self-contained tool...
Steven J. Castellucci, I. Scott MacKenzie
ISVC
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Biometric Recognition: When Is Evidence Fusion Advantageous?
Abstract. Having assessed the performance gains due to evidence fusion, previous works reported contradictory conclusions. For some, a consistent improvement is achieved, while oth...
Hugo Proença
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
A Holistic Approach for Performance Measurement and Analysis for Petascale Applications
Abstract. Contemporary high-end Terascale and Petascale systems are composed of hundreds of thousands of commodity multi-core processors interconnected with high-speed custom netwo...
Heike Jagode, Jack Dongarra, Sadaf R. Alam, Jeffre...