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HIPEAC
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Steal-on-Abort: Improving Transactional Memory Performance through Dynamic Transaction Reordering
Abstract. In transactional memory, aborted transactions reduce performance, and waste computing resources. Ideally, concurrent execution of transactions should be optimally ordered...
Mohammad Ansari, Mikel Luján, Christos Kots...
ICCV
2001
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Improving AR using Shadows Arising from Natural Illumination Distribution in Video Sequences
In this paper, we propose a method for generating realistic shadows of virtual objects inserted into a real video sequence. Our aim is to improve and extend the work of [1], which...
Taeone Kim, Yongduek Seo, Ki-Sang Hong
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Cm-pmi: improved web-based association measure with contextual label matching
WebPMI is a popular web-based association measure to evaluate the semantic similarity between two queries (i.e. words or entities) by leveraging search results returned by search ...
Xiaojun Wan
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
E-imci: improving pediatric health care in low-income countries
Every year almost 10 million children die before reaching the age of five despite the fact that two-thirds of these deaths could be prevented by effective low-cost interventions. ...
Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan S. Parikh, Clayton...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Improving Disk Throughput in Data-Intensive Servers
Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk control...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini