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IPTPS
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Understanding Availability
This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Scheduling Algorithms for a Cache Pre-Filling Content Distribution Network
Abstract—Cache pre-filling is emerging as a new concept for increasing the availability of popular web items in cache servers. According to this concept, web items are sent by a...
Reuven Cohen, Liran Katzir, Danny Raz
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A design evaluation of a user interface for tending long-term tasks
Organizational processes often take place over long periods of time and require intermittent attention. Remembering and reasoning about upcoming process tasks is important, but no...
Robert Farrell, Hina Shah, Thomas Erickson, Wendy ...
EUROPAR
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Optimal Polling for Latency-Throughput Tradeoffs in Queue-Based Network Interfaces for Clusters
We consider a networking subsystem for message–passing clusters that uses two unidirectional queues for data transfers between the network interface card (NIC) and the lower prot...
Dmitry Ponomarev, Kanad Ghose, Eugeny Saksonov
EVOW
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Constructive Evolutionary Approach to School Timetabling
This work presents a constructive approach to the process of fixing a sequence of meetings between teachers and students in a prefixed period of time, satisfying a set of constrain...
Geraldo Ribeiro Filho, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Loren...