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2005
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Broadcasting information via display names in instant messaging
Many instant messenger (IM) clients let a person specify the identifying name that appears in another person’s contact list. We have noticed that many people add extra informati...
Stephanie Smale, Saul Greenberg
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Assignment of dynamic transmission range based on estimation of vehicle density
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) have several characteristics that distinguish them from other ad hoc networks. Among those is the rapid change in topology due to traffic jams, w...
Maen M. Artimy, William Robertson, William J. Phil...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
The performance impact of kernel prefetching on buffer cache replacement algorithms
A fundamental challenge in improving the file system performance is to design effective block replacement algorithms to minimize buffer cache misses. Despite the well-known int...
Ali Raza Butt, Chris Gniady, Y. Charlie Hu
STORAGESS
2005
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Hydra: a platform for survivable and secure data storage systems
This paper introduces Hydra, a platform that we are developing for highly survivable and secure data storage systems that distribute information over networks and adapt timely to ...
Lihao Xu
ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 12 days ago
Emotion based adaptive reasoning for resource bounded agents
In the design of resource bounded agents, high-level cognitive activities, such as reasoning, raise important problems related both to the adaptive ability and to the computationa...
Luís Morgado, Graça Gaspar