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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
SnowFlock: rapid virtual machine cloning for cloud computing
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
Horacio Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Joseph Andrew...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
105views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
16 years 4 days ago
An interposed 2-Level I/O scheduling framework for performance virtualization
I/O consolidation is a growing trend in production environments due to the increasing complexity in tuning and managing storage systems. A consequence of this trend is the need to...
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska,...
IVA
2005
Springer
16 years 2 days ago
Direct Manipulation Like Tools for Designing Intelligent Virtual Agents
If intelligent virtual agents are to become widely adopted it is vital that they can be designed using the user friendly graphical tools that are used in other areas of graphics. H...
Marco Gillies, Dale Robeterson, Daniel Ballin
OTM
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
A Virtual-Machine-Based Middleware
Currently, a number of distributed software systems development tools exist, but typically they are designed either to satisfy industrial standards – industrial perspective – o...
Alcides Calsavara, Agnaldo K. Noda, Juarez da Cost...