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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
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Efficient use of robots in the undergraduate curriculum
In this paper we describe how a single Khepera II robot was used for an assignment in a senior level course on graphical user interface implementation. The assignment required eac...
Judith Challinger
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
154views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
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Fair operation of multi-server and multi-queue systems
Multi-server and multi-queue architectures are common mechanisms used in a large variety of applications (call centers, Web services, computer systems). One of the major motivatio...
David Raz, Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, Hanoch Levy
VEE
2005
ACM
130views Virtualization» more  VEE 2005»
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The entropia virtual machine for desktop grids
Desktop distributed computing allows companies to exploit the idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x - 1...
Brad Calder, Andrew A. Chien, Ju Wang, Don Yang
VRST
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Dynamic creation of interactive mixed reality presentations
In this paper, we describe a method of dynamic creation of interactive presentations for Mixed Reality environments. The presentations are created automatically for collections of...
Krzysztof Walczak, Rafal Wojciechowski
WOSP
2005
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Applying SPE techniques for modeling a grid-enabled JAVA platform
Advances in Internet and the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks have propitiated the rise of Grids. The scheduling of applications is complex in Grids due ...
Mariela Curiel, M. Angélica Pérez, R...