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DSN
2005
IEEE
16 years 8 days ago
A Performability-Oriented Software Rejuvenation Framework for Distributed Applications
While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
HIPC
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
The Impact of Noise on the Scaling of Collectives: A Theoretical Approach
The performance of parallel applications running on large clusters is known to degrade due to the interference of kernel and daemon activities on individual nodes, often referred t...
Saurabh Agarwal, Rahul Garg, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi
RTA
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Proving Positive Almost-Sure Termination
Abstract In order to extend the modeling capabilities of rewriting systems, it is rather natural to consider that the firing of rules can be subject to some probabilistic laws. Co...
Olivier Bournez, Florent Garnier
CHI
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Administrative assistants as interruption mediators
When designing automated systems that make decisions about when to allow or deny interruptions, the methods of professional interruption mediators are an important source of infor...
Laura Dabbish, Ryan Shaun Baker
CA
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Model-based Animation of Coverbal Gesture
Virtual conversational agents are supposed to combine speech with nonverbal modalities for intelligible and believeable utterances. However, the automatic synthesis of coverbal ge...
Stefan Kopp, Ipke Wachsmuth