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GIS
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Evacuation route planning: scalable heuristics
Given a transportation network, a vulnerable population, and a set of destinations, evacuation route planning identifies routes to minimize the time to evacuate the vulnerable pop...
Sangho Kim, Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Synthesizing Stochasticity in Biochemical Systems
Randomness is inherent to biochemistry: at each instant, the sequence of reactions that fires is a matter of chance. Some biological systems exploit such randomness, choosing betw...
Brian Fett, Jehoshua Bruck, Marc D. Riedel
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Focus on driving: how cognitive constraints shape the adaptation of strategy when dialing while driving
We investigate how people adapt their strategy for interleaving multiple concurrent tasks to varying objectives. A study was conducted in which participants drove a simulated vehi...
Duncan P. Brumby, Dario D. Salvucci, Andrew Howes
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Beyond nested parallelism: tight bounds on work-stealing overheads for parallel futures
Work stealing is a popular method of scheduling fine-grained parallel tasks. The performance of work stealing has been extensively studied, both theoretically and empirically, but...
Daniel Spoonhower, Guy E. Blelloch, Phillip B. Gib...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Longitudinal study of a building-scale RFID ecosystem
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) deployments are becoming increasingly popular in both industrial and consumer-oriented settings. To effectively exploit and operate such depl...
Evan Welbourne, Karl Koscher, Emad Soroush, Magdal...