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Survey of scheduling techniques for addressing shared resources in multicore processors
The new scheduling challenges posed by chip multicore architectures have opened new research directions in operating system scheduling. This survey paper provides an excellent introduction to this fascinating topic for the reader who has some knowledge of scheduling... more
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Local search for a multi-drop multi-container loading problem: Journal of Heuristics

Container loading problems (CLP) are interesting and easy to appreciate, and span from real-world to abstract mathematical variants. However, CLP... more

Prob. Solving/Control Meth./Search (I.2.8) | May 17 13

Limits of region-based dynamic binary parallelization: VEE 13

Parallel computation is everywhere, from small portable devices to laptops, desktops, and data centers. This wealth of available parallelism challenges computer scientists and developers alike to... more

Parallel Architectures (C.1.4) | May 17 13

A fluid-filled soft robot that exhibits spontaneous switching among versatile spatiotemporal oscillatory patterns inspired by the true slime mold: Artificial Life

Natural systems adapt to the environment by automatically switching behaviors, a property of interest for any robotic system. This paper... more

Robotics (I.2.9) | May 16 13

Digital forensics for enterprise rights management systems: iiWAS 12

Enterprise rights management (ERM) is concerned with managing and protecting data in an enterprise context. Digital forensics issues run into considerations of encryption and access protection. Existing... more

Access Controls (D.4.6...) | May 16 13

A new marker-less 3D Kinect-based system for facial anthropometric measurements: AMDO 12

Facial anthropometry is the science of measuring the human face by identifying and marking landmark points on the subject (face). Measurements... more

Feature Representation (I.4.7...) | May 14 13

Deciding polynomial-transcendental problems: Journal of Symbolic Computation

The theory of quantifier elimination over real closed fields goes back to Tarski [1], though practical methods had to wait for Collins in 1975 [2]. Given a formula Q1x1, ... , Qkxk... more

Decision Problems (F.4.3...) | May 14 13

Integrating theoretical and empirical computer science in a data structures course: SIGCSE 13

There is nothing surprising or original about proposing to make discrete mathematics “relevant” to students of computer science. Nor is it controversial to... more

Computer Science Education (K.3.2...) | May 13 13

A hybrid genetic algorithm for the bottleneck traveling salesman problem: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

The bottleneck traveling salesman problem (BTSP) refers to the challenge of finding a Hamiltonian circuit that minimizes the largest cost of any of the... more

Heuristic Methods (I.2.8...) | May 10 13

On the distinctness of modular reductions of primitive sequences modulo square-free odd integers: Information Processing Letters

The study of maximal period linear recurring sequences, or primitive sequences, over ring ℤ/(M) (for some special positive integer M) is of crypto... more

Data Encryption (E.3) | May 10 13

How we teach impacts student learning: peer instruction vs. lecture in CS0: SIGCSE 13

Assuming we know what we want to teach, what is the best way to convey this information? There are many papers on how to improve teaching and... more

Computer Science Education (K.3.2...) | May 9 13

Books
Privacy and security for cloud computing

Cloud computing is a new phenomenon with enormous potential that is changing the way enterprises function. However, to achieve its potential, issues related to privacy, security, and trust must be... more
Cloud Computing (C.2.4...) | May 17 13

Frontiers of intelligent autonomous systems

Someday soon there will be something (besides people and pets) that moves about in, and manipulates, our environment, without our supervision or control. Such devices exist in laboratories and some are... more
Applications & Expert Systems (I.2.1) | May 16 13

Handbook of iris recognition

The challenge in producing an edited collection of papers is to arrive at a volume that is unified, complete, and consistent. The editors of this book have succeeded. It is an excellent summary of the state of theory, technology, and applications... more
Object Recognition (I.4.8...) | May 15 13

Introduction to cryptography with Maple

Maple is a widely used mathematical tool for scientific computations. Since cryptography involves many complicated math operations, it is difficult to reveal its design principles using a traditional programming language, such as C or Java. In this book... more
Data Encryption (E.3) | May 13 13

Matrix analysis

There are few computational algorithms in this book; the authors are interested in what matrices represent. For computational scientists or scientists for whom computation is an important part of their work... more
Numerical Linear Algebra (G.1.3) | May 13 13

Reaction-diffusion automata

Since their inception, cellular automata have remained a most intriguing subject of scientific research. On one hand, cellular automata represent an effective computational tool for investigating various... more
Physical Sciences & Engineering (J.2) | May 10 13

Malware forensics field guide for Windows systems: digital forensics field guides

This is not an academic book, nor is it a textbook. While it may be an acceptable supplement for a reader already fairly familiar with Windows, forensics, and malware... more
Security & Protection (K.6.5) | May 9 13

Advances in intelligent signal processing and data mining: theory & applications

Intelligent signal processing and data mining underlie numerous important applications in science and engineering. This book aims to present the most recent developments in these areas with a... more
Data Mining (H.2.8...) | May 7 13

.NET test automation recipes: a problem-solution approach

McCaffrey has written a comprehensive book on .NET automation recipes. I found many good techniques in this book. More than that, he offers several complementary techniques, an approach that... more
Microsoft .NET (D.3.2...) | May 7 13

Data analytics: models and algorithms for intelligent data analysis

Data mining and knowledge discovery has become an important field in computer science (CS) over the past few decades. As the amount of available information has been increasing rapidly, the mining of data... more
Classifier Design & Evaluation (I.5.2...) | May 3 13


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