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PODC
1996
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms
Drawing ideas from previous authors, we present a new non-blocking concurrent queue algorithm and a new twolock queue algorithm in which one enqueue and one dequeue can proceed co...
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
DAGSTUHL
2004
15 years 7 months ago
The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case-Optimal R-Tree
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
OPODIS
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Lock-Free and Practical Doubly Linked List-Based Deques Using Single-Word Compare-and-Swap
Abstract. We present an efficient and practical lock-free implementation of a concurrent deque that supports parallelism for disjoint accesses and uses atomic primitives which are ...
Håkan Sundell, Philippas Tsigas
CORR
2007
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
On the Outage Capacity of a Practical Decoder Using Channel Estimation Accuracy
— The optimal decoder achieving the outage capacity under imperfect channel estimation is investigated. First, by searching into the family of nearest neighbor decoders, which ca...
Pablo Piantanida, Sajad Sadough, Pierre Duhamel
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Understanding usability practices in complex domains
Although usability methods are widely used for evaluating conventional graphical user interfaces and websites, there is a growing concern that current approaches are inadequate fo...
Parmit K. Chilana, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew J. Ko