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2007
Tsinghua U.
16 years 23 days ago
Optimization of data prefetch helper threads with path-expression based statistical modeling
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Availability Prediction Based Replication Strategies for Grid Environments
Volunteer-based grid computing resources are characteristically volatile and frequently become unavailable due to the autonomy that owners maintain over them. This resource volati...
Brent Rood, Michael J. Lewis
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...
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Authoring of learning styles in adaptive hypermedia: problems and solutions
Learning styles, as well as the best ways of responding with corresponding instructional strategies, have been intensively studied in the classical educational (classroom) setting...
Natalia Stash, Alexandra I. Cristea, Paul De Bra
WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A web-based resource migration protocol using WebDAV
The web's hyperlinks are notoriously brittle, and break whenever a resource migrates. One solution to this problem is a transparent resource migration mechanism, which separa...
Michael P. Evans, Steven Furnell