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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
On being supple: in search of rigor without rigidity in meeting new design and evaluation challenges for HCI practitioners
In this paper, we argue that HCI practitioners are facing new challenges in design and evaluation that can benefit from the establishment of commonly valued use qualities, with as...
Katherine Isbister, Kristina Höök
TSMC
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Automated Modeling of Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams Using Colored Petri Nets
Computer system reliability is conventionally modeled and analyzed using techniques such as fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagrams (RBD), which provide static rep...
Ryan Robidoux, Haiping Xu, Liudong Xing, MengChu Z...
CORR
2011
Springer
162views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Optimal Power Cost Management Using Stored Energy in Data Centers
Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neel...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Flexible register management using reference counting
Conventional out-of-order processors that use a unified physical register file allocate and reclaim registers explicitly using a free list that operates as a circular queue. We ...
Steven Battle, Andrew D. Hilton, Mark Hempstead, A...
TIM
2011
172views more  TIM 2011»
15 years 1 months ago
Selecting a Reference High Resolution for Fingerprint Recognition Using Minutiae and Pores
—High-resolution automated fingerprint recognition systems (AFRSs) offer higher security because they are able to make use of level-3 features, such as pores, that are not avail...
David Zhang, Feng Liu, Qijun Zhao, Guangming Lu, N...