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AVI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Starburst: a target expansion algorithm for non-uniform target distributions
Acquiring small targets on a tablet or touch screen can be challenging. To address the problem, researchers have proposed techniques that enlarge the effective size of targets by ...
Patrick Baudisch, Alexander Zotov, Edward Cutrell,...
ICIA
2007
15 years 9 months ago
VizScript: Visualizing Complex Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
We address the problem of users creating visualizations to debug and understand multi-agent systems. The key challenges are that (1) needs arise dynamically, i.e., it is difficult...
Jing Jin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Romeo Sanchez, Pedr...
FAST
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Write Off-Loading: Practical Power Management for Enterprise Storage
In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Antony I. T....
LISA
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Decision Support for Virtual Machine Re-Provisioning in Production Environments
Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...
Kyrre M. Begnum, Matthew Disney, Æleen Frisc...
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Context-Aware Prefetching at the Storage Server
In many of today's applications, access to storage constitutes the major cost of processing a user request. Data prefetching has been used to alleviate the storage access lat...
Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu, Cristiana...