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2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Optimal retrial and timeout strategies for accessing network resources
The notion of timeout (namely, the maximal time to wait before retrying an action) turns up in many networking contexts, such as packet transmission, connection establishment, etc....
Lavy Libman, Ariel Orda
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
15 years 4 months ago
Refereeing conflicts in hardware transactional memory
In the search for high performance, most transactional memory (TM) systems execute atomic blocks concurrently and must thus be prepared for data conflicts. The TM system must then...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Sandhya Dwarkadas
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Should I open this email?: inbox-level cues, curiosity and attention to email
The quantity of email people receive each day can be overwhelming. Previous research suggests that when handling email, individuals prioritize certain messages for attention over ...
Jaclyn Wainer, Laura Dabbish, Robert Kraut
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
SRM-buffer: an OS buffer management technique to prevent last level cache from thrashing in multicores
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur