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IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Surge Handling as a Measure of Real-Time System Dependability
Traditional reliability measures for computer systems can be classi ed into Computer-Centric or Application-Centric categories. The former concentrate on the hardware resources whi...
Zahava Koren, Israel Koren, C. Mani Krishna
SOUPS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Usability and security of out-of-band channels in secure device pairing protocols
Initiating and bootstrapping secure, yet low-cost, ad-hoc transactions is an important challenge that needs to be overcome if the promise of mobile and pervasive computing is to b...
Ronald Kainda, Ivan Flechais, A. W. Roscoe
JAIR
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
A Constraint Satisfaction Framework for Executing Perceptions and Actions in Diagrammatic Reasoning
Diagrammatic reasoning (DR) is pervasive in human problem solving as a powerful adjunct to symbolic reasoning based on language-like representations. The research reported in this...
Bonny Banerjee, B. Chandrasekaran
SPE
1998
129views more  SPE 1998»
15 years 6 months ago
Timing Trials, or the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
This paper describes some basic experiments to see how fast various popular scripting and user-interface languages run on a spectrum of representative tasks. We found enormous var...
Brian W. Kernighan, Christopher J. Van Wyk
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TPDS
2008
175views more  TPDS 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Centralized versus Distributed Schedulers for Bag-of-Tasks Applications
Multiple applications that execute concurrently on heterogeneous platforms compete for CPU and network resources. In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling applications ...
Olivier Beaumont, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante, A...