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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Performance Evaluation and Prediction for Legacy Information Systems
Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance req...
Yan Jin, Antony Tang, Jun Han, Yan Liu
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A relative positioning system for co-located mobile devices
If a mobile computing device knows how it is positioned and oriented in relation to other devices nearby, then it can provide enhanced support for multi-device and multi-user inte...
Mike Hazas, Christian Kray, Hans-Werner Gellersen,...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
30 seconds is not enough!: a study of operating system timer usage
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
TEI
2010
ACM
163views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Action and representation in tangible systems: implications for design of learning interactions
In tangible learning systems, the facility to promote physically active engagement highlights the need to understand how different designs impact on action and interaction, and th...
Sara Price, Jennifer G. Sheridan, Taciana Pontual ...
FGCN
2008
IEEE
125views Communications» more  FGCN 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Coordinating System Software for Power Savings
Power consumption is becoming a primary concern as a result of tremendous increasing in computer power usage. Innumerable methods and techniques have been exploited to address thi...
Lingxiang Xiang, Jiangwei Huang, Tianzhou Chen