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Frugal Mobile Objects

Rachid Guerraoui, Maxime Monod, Benoît Garbinato, Jesper Honig Spring

This paper presents a computing model for resource-limited mobile devices. The originality of the model lies in the integration of a strongly-typed event-based communication paradigm with abstractions for frugal control, assuming a small footprint runtime. ...

2005

Stimulating preference expression using suggestions

Pearl Pu Faltings, Paolo Viappiani

Users often have to search for a most preferred item but do not know how to state their preferences in the language allowed by the system. Example-Critiquing has been proposed as a mixed-initiative technique for allowing them to construct their preference ...

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496, United States2005

Fault-tolerant parallel applications with dynamic parallel schedules

Roger Hersch, Sebastian Gerlach

Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore drive the MTBF of such clusters to unacceptable levels. The software framewo ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, United States2005

A Model for Parallel Programming over CORBA

Existing models for parallel programming over Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) do not address issues specific to parallel programming over a Network of Workstations (NOWs). This paper presents P-CORBA, a model for parallel programming over ...

2004

Parallelization and scheduling of data intensive particle physics analysis jobs on clusters of PCs

Roger Hersch, Sébastien Ponce

Scheduling policies are proposed for parallelizing data intensive particle physics analysis applications on computer clusters. Particle physics analysis jobs require the analysis of tens of thousands of particle collision events, each event requiring typic ...

IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos;Massey University, Palmerston, CA 90720-1314, United States;New Zealand2004

Controlling Virtual Humans Using PDAs

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

The new breed of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and mobile phones have enough computing power to display 3D graphics. These new mobile devices (handhelds) have some other interesting communication and interaction possibilities as well. In this paper we ...

2003

Modified fixed point algorithm in fluid–structure interaction

Fabio Nobile, Simone Deparis, Luca Formaggia

In this work, we address the numerical solution of some non-linear problems arising in the time discretization of fluid–structure interaction problems with fully implicit schemes. At each time step, we have to solve a highly non-linear coupled system, sinc ...

2003

Monitoring of Resource Consumption in Java-based Application Servers

To realize dependable and profitable information and communication systems, computing resources (CPU, memory, network bandwidth) should be taken into account to a much wider extent than they are today. E-commerce infrastructure, such as application servers ...

2003

Stochastic Sampling for Computing the Mutual Information of Two Images

Michaël Unser, Philippe Thévenaz

Mutual information is an attractive registration criterion because it provides a meaningful comparison of images that represent different physical properties. In this paper, we review the shortcomings of three published methods for its computation. We iden ...

NuHAG2003

Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking: The P-Grid System and its Applications

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Anwitaman Datta, Roman Schmidt, Jie Wu, Zoran Despotovic

The limitations of client/server systems become evident in an Internet-scale distributed environment. Peer-topeer (P2P) systems offer an interesting alternative to traditional client/server systems: Every node acts both as a client and a server and “ ...

2003