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USENIX
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Controlling Your PLACE in the File System with Gray-box Techniques
We present the design and implementation of PLACE, a gray-box library for controlling file layout on top of FFSlike file systems. PLACE exploits its knowledge of FFS layout poli...
James A. Nugent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Active Implicit Surface for Animation
This paper introduces a new model of deformable surfaces designed for animation, which we call active implicit surfaces. The underlying idea is to animate a potential field define...
Mathieu Desbrun, Marie-Paule Gascuel
USENIX
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Location-Aware Scheduling with Minimal Infrastructure
Mobile computers often benefit from software which adapts to their location. For example, a computer might be backed up when at the office, or the default printer might always be ...
John S. Heidemann, Dhaval Shah
WEBNET
1997
15 years 7 months ago
Cineast - An Extensible Web Browser
: Cineast is a freely available, extensible Web browser which intends to provide an environment for prototyping new client side Internet technologies. Cineast has built-in support ...
Eckhart Köppen, Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Nusser
ACL
1990
15 years 7 months ago
Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation
Conversation between two people is usually of MIXED-INITIATIVE, with CONTROL over the conversation being transferred from one person to another. We apply a set of rules for the tr...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker