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EUROMICRO
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Universal Framework for Managing Metadata in the Distributed Dragon Slayer System
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
Horst Wedde, Jens-Oliver P. Siepmann
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Segregating Heap Objects by Reference Behavior and Lifetime
Dynamic storage allocation has become increasingly important in many applications, in part due to the use of the object-oriented paradigm. At the same time, processor speeds are i...
Matthew L. Seidl, Benjamin G. Zorn
COMPGEOM
1990
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Finding Compact Coordinate Representations for Polygons and Polyhedra
Practical solid modeling systems are plagued by numerical problems that arise from using oatingpoint arithmetic. For example, polyhedral solids are often represented by a combinat...
Victor Milenkovic, Lee R. Nackman
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Model Resource Contention for Performance Estimation of Multi-featured Media Devices
The number of features that are supported in modern multimedia devices is increasing faster than ever. Estimating the performance of such applications when they are running on sha...
Akash Kumar, Bart Mesman, Henk Corporaal, Bart D. ...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Sequences of take-it-or-leave-it offers: near-optimal auctions without full valuation revelation
Abstract. We introduce take-it-or-leave-it auctions (TLAs) as an allocation mechanism that allows buyers to retain much of their private valuation information, yet generates close-...
Tuomas Sandholm, Andrew Gilpin