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CCE
2011
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The alternative fuel butanol can be produced via acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation from renewable resources, i.e. biomass. Expensive feedstocks and the high costs for the...
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CHI
2011
ACM
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ACM
Programmers frequently use the Web while writing code: they search for libraries, code examples, tutorials, and documentation. This link between code and visited Web pages remains...
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CIDR
2011
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
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FAST
2011
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2011
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
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FAST
2011
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2011
Although Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) exhibits high performance and low power consumption, a critical concern is its limited lifespan along with the associated relia...